The four-volume “Shiraz” series teaches the four language skills— reading, writing, listening, and speaking— across elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced levels.This series has been developed for adolescent and high school students whose  first  language  is  Arabic. Notable features of this series include the simultaneous teaching of both formal and colloquial forms of the Persian language, as well as the  use  of  fixed  story  characters.