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I am looking for a version of the Divine Liturgy which is in use by the Melkites (in Arabic), i.e. either:
- full text of the liturgy printed in Arabic (I have rudimentary reading capabilities of Arabic letters),
- OR transliterated Arabic and optionally English translation (this is still preferable for me).

After much searching on the internet I've found the second kind (English + transliterated Arabic) on a Greek Orthodox webpage:

Divine Liturgy in English & Arabic Phonetics [holytrinitysf.org]

Could someone of Melkite background please check if this variant (translation) of the Divine Liturgy is acceptably similar to how they celebrate it? Or if there are major differences could you point me to a similar document made by the Melkites?

Thank you!!

Our Antiochian Orthodox brothers still use this Arabic version. The Melkite-Greek Catholic Arabic text is a rather different version in a more modern literary language. There is an Arabic-English Melkite text published by Alleluia Press. It presents the typical liturgy of St. John Chrysostom with the usual parish abbreviations. The Arabic text is minimally vocalized and so demands a high degree of literacy.

Dear Fr. Ot'ets Nastoiatel' ,

Thank you for your response! Yes, I was afraid of this. I was (am) hoping to find something online at this point. I plan to visit our Melkite brothers here in Sweden and would like to get a little bit into the text so that I can better follow the liturgy. The minimally vocalized text doesn't seem too useful, unfortunately, since I have zero literacy.
There surely must be something online since we are talking here about one of the biggest Eastern Catholic Churches, a Patriarchate even! I just have a hard time searching in Arabic in Google...

The Melkites have a parish in Sweden?

Yes, they have. You see there are a lot of Middle Eastern and other immigrants in Sweden. So there are, among the Catholics, Armenians, Syrians, Maronites, Melkites and Chaldeans. Then there are Eastern and Oriental Orthodox immigrants, especially a lot of Syrian and Assyrian Orthodox. From people following Byzantine tradition it's, again, the Melkites and also Ukrainian Catholics (and probably Orthodox, too).

Oh, and among the Catholics I shouldn't leave out the Latins since they are of course the bulk. I just didn't think of that on this forum