[eal-bilingual] Arabic dictionaries

Hi

I am positing this on behalf of Sheila O¹Grady.

Viv Edwards

I'm currently working with a 16 year old Palestinian lad who came to the UK
at the end of last year. His spoken English is deemed good enough for him to
be in mainstream classes but there are lots of words he doesn't understand
and he struggles with writing - made even more difficult because he wants to
produce quality work.

Our exams officer has agreed he can have extra time and the use of a
dictionary for upcoming modular maths and science tests. Unfortunately his
dictionary - Concise Oxford English/Arabic Dictionary - doesn't contain many
of the words he needs to reference.

I've done a bit of research on the internet and the Oxford English/Arabic
Dictionary of Current Usage gets favourable reviews but it costs £55 so I
want to be sure it's going to do the business and won't be too enormous to
carry around!  

Any help would be greatly appreciated. School will buy the dictionary
provided I can place the order by Friday so this request is a tad urgent

Thanks
Sheila