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Marijn "i before j" van Putten
PhDniX
As promised, here's a follow up to my series of ongoing comparisons between Nabataean Arabic and Old Hijazi. This time we will look at the Deictic system within the Arabic
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Nesrin Amin
bilmasripodcast
Sarah Hagrass, whose FB page is full of interesting and funny posts on the Egyptian dialect (in Arabic) has produced a short video on some expressive interjections in Egyptian Arabic.
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Ruba Ali Al-Hassani
RubaAlHassani
I often think of the late Zaha Hadid's quote:"حوربت عالميا لأني عربية، وحوربت عربيا لأني امرأة""I was resisted globally for being an Arab, & resisted by Arabs for being a
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Elijah Reynolds
ejay_arr
I told an imam today that iqra in the #Quran doesn't mean "read", it means "gather!" according to the ahl al-lughah (Linguistic experts) of 7th century #arabic. He sent me
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Roddie - راضي
eiddor
The only Fried kibbeh (كبة مقلية) thread!- Fried kibbeh is my favorite Arabic food. - Syrians make the best fried kibbeh. Don't @ me. I will die on this hill.-
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Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ
bdaiwi_historia
Today Leiden University (@UniLeiden) celebrates its 446 birthday (est. 1575 AD). Leiden is especially renowned for its dedication to teach and promote Arabic and Islamic studies. A thread on the
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Nathan S. French
innesseff
Watching responses to @ProfIRMF's article in JAAR. Colleagues are missing the discussion of how *capital* frames hires in Islamic Studies. Admins and BoTs often want to see humanities positions answerable
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Kaspars Ozolins
lettlander
Mini thread: Why is it still 'all Greek' to Christians?Watched a great @biblingoapp webinar yesterday where Kevin made a keen observation:If you look at the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity is in
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Mohammed Husain J.
mhusain313
Important statement by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's office in regards to the upcoming Muharram season, in which Shi'a Muslims will observe and mourn the martyrdom of Imam Husain. Will highlight a
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Jewish History
HistoricalJW
Today is the Hebrew Language Day!And here are some facts about this unique language: 1. The word “Hebrew” עברית is derived from the name “Eber” עבר, an ancestor of the
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Z.
qrt_hdsty
A Tunisian Judeo-Arabic text and a few comments on it: The text on the image is the announcement of the Ghriba pilgrimage, the Lag Ba-Omer celebration that happens yearly
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Sami Jiries
samijiries
In my Akkadian class, we recently came across the word muškēnu, which is obviously cognate to Arabic مِسكين miskīn. So naturally, I decided to look into its origins and exactly
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😷 Will Gervais 😷
wgervais
Very happy to see this paper published: The Status of Arabic Social PsychologyIt's well worth a read, because these authors have important things to say.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550620925224 They recognize that
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uncle bluebird
unclebluebird
Aight. Time for a story. My parents enrolled me in a school that did hifdh along with education (acc Baba did it bcz they had promised to teach Arabic but
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Z.
qrt_hdsty
Yes-no questions have a rising intonation in many languages, some of which have a question marker in addition, like Chinese ma 吗. In Tunisian, this rising intonation is accompanied by
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Conspirador Norteño
conspirator0
It's a great day to look at an Arabic-language pornbot network that uses stolen profile pics. This particular botnet sometimes uses the same pic on multiple accounts, occasionally cropped differently.
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