"Focus on Contemporary Arabic" is the fifth volume in the "Conversations with Native Speakers" series, which strives to offer pioneering multimedia language materials to students at the intermediate and advanced levels. These programmes consist of a slim, user-friendly student textbook and an accompanying DVD showing interviews with a variety of native speakers filmed in the target language. These speakers represent all areas of the cultural spectrum, offering a realistic view of the diversity of the native-speaking populations of the language in question. 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 of both the language and the culture.