transliteration from Arabic

Some people don't like my transliteration of Arabic: it may be a bit outmoded or less simplified.  I still stick to the old system of the Library of Congress. Not my fault: habit.  You see as I started my graduate studies in Beirut, I read and re-read the bibliography section of Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq.  The system is now ingrained in me.