Focus on Contemporary Arabic is the fourth volume in the Conversations with Native Speakers series, which strives to offer pioneering multimedia language materials to students at the intermediate and advanced levels. This program consists of a user-friendly student textbook and an accompanying DVD showing unrehearsed interviews with a variety of native speakers filmed in Arabic. The speakers represent diverse areas of the cultural spectrum, and the interviews on the DVD broach an assortment of socially and culturally relevant topics and present students of the language with a glimpse into the complexity and reality of the modern-day language and culture. Book jacket.