From the Introduction: "An Arabic speaker reading or listening to colloquial Arabic may understand the discourse, but may want to know the regional provenance of particular words and phrases encountered; in other words, where is the speaker or writer of this material from? Syria? Iraq? This manual provides indexes by region of the keywords and phrases that distinguish the various Arabic dialects. It also includes a few maps that identify the general geographic range-of-use for some common words and phrases."

Introduction --Dialect region abbreviations -- Transcription -- Arabic word list -- English word list -- Word lists by major dialect -- Algerian -- Chadian -- Egyptian -- Gulf -- Hassaniyah -- Hijazi -- Iraqi -- Levantine -- Libyan -- Moroccan -- Najdi -- Omani -- Sudanese -- Tunisian -- Yemeni -- References -- Maps -- Dialect areas -- Usage areas, major lexical features.