Arabic Male/Masculine Names that end with Taa Marbuta ـة/ة

Taa Marbuta is normally associated with feminine nouns and adjectives. Here are some examples of Arabic names for males that end with Taa Marbuta.

عزة   Izzat
عنترة   Antarah
طرفة   Tarafa
أسامة    Osama
حمزة    Hamzah

خليفة    Khalifa

عقبة    Aqaba
طلحة   Talha

معاوية  Muawiya

عكرمة  Ikrima

Al Arabiya TV News Transcripts in Arabic and English

I recently found a resource that could help with learning Arabic, especially with listening skills. The satellite news network Al Arabiya posts translations in English and transcripts in Arabic for it's News Bulletins along with the video of the program. The videos also have a Closed Captioning "CC" button so you can read the Arabic or English script.

Just go their News Bulletin page:

http://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/news-bulletin.html

And click on the latest video or scroll down to "Latest News Bulletins". Click on a bulletin, and another page opens with a video, translation and transcript.

Example:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/webtv/news-bulletin/2015/07/06/1300GMT.html

To see the Arabic transcript of the program, click on "Transcripts".

Live Stream of Arabic News Channels

You can practice listening and reading with news programs. Many Arab TV networks are on YouTube and stream live on their own websites. Here are links to the live stream of some major channels:

CNBC Arabia

Al Arabiya Al Hadath

Al Arabiya (may be blocked)

Al Jazeera Arabic

BBC Arabic

Sky News Arabia

Al Mayadeen

Live broadcast of Al Arabiya's regular news channel is blocked in the USA, but it's other channel, Al Hadath, is not blocked. You can use a proxy server ( e.g. from http://free-proxy-list.net/uk-proxy.html ) to watch Al Arabiya's regular channel.

You can also try the TOR web browser to watch Al Jazeera Arabic.

These sites stream many different Arab channels:

Livestation

Fomny
GLArab

The آل in Arab family and tribal names

We have all heard of the well known Arab families, such as آل سعود‎ (Al Saud), آل صباح‎ (Al Sabah), آل ثاني (Al Thani), آل رشيد (Al Rasheed), etc. The word آل came from either the جذر أ و ل  , which has to do with family or people, or from the word أهل , from جذر أ ه ل , which also has to do with family or people.

آل البيت could refer to the blood relatives and descendants of محمد
أهل البيت could refer to all Muslims collectively or to the family of محمد

Some Arab tribes have names like آلبو صالح (Albu Salih) or آلبو نمر (Albu Nimr). The آلبو is a shortening of آل أبو . So آلبو نمر is really آل أبو نمر , The Descendants of The Father of Nimr, or the Abu Nimr Tribe. But the people just say آلبو نمر , and so we write Albu Nimr.

Full greeting of Ahlan Wa Sahlan أهلاً وسهلاً

We all know the greeting أهلاً وسهلاً . The full form, or origin of it, seems to be from two varieties.

حللتَ أهلاً ونزلتَ سهلاً
Arrive as family and stay (come down) with ease.

حللتَ أهلاً ووطئتَ سهلاً
Arrive as family and tread with ease.