Lamenting Ignorance of Modern Standard Arabic
Here’s a piece from The National from a few days ago, lamenting how poorly many Arabs speak Modern Standard Arabic. It opens with the oft-cited problems Lebanese Prime Minister Sa‘d Hariri had in...
View ArticleThe Debate About Arabic, Continued
Everybody’s talking about Arabic again. And they’re doing it mostly in English. Not long ago I posted about a recent article in The National lamenting the state of Modern Standard Arabic. Now The...
View ArticleIt’s Edward William Lane’s Birthday Again
It is, once again, Edward William Lane’s birthday. For those who weren’t reading this blog a year ago, you should first read my post of last year on the great Orikentalist, author of Manners and...
View ArticlePalestinian dream city hits snag from Israel (AP)
AP – It is billed as a symbol of the future Palestine: a modern, middle-class city of orderly streets, parks and shopping plazas rising in the hills of the West Bank, ready for independence, affluence...
View ArticleA Biography of Defiance
Henri Matisse, The Moroccans, 1915-16,The Museum of Modern Art, New York, A biography of defiance by Hassan El Ouazzani It was better for the world not to have existed. It was better for the dynasty to...
View ArticleMap: Modern Iran
Modern Iran Click to go to map, click again to enlarge. Informed Comment Map Page (Under Construcion) Print Go to Source
View ArticleKurdishGlobe on Modern communications
KurdishGlobe- Modern communications: The double-edged sword opinion piece "Modern communications technology? although useful and an advantage? especially in creating a common public sphere and stronger...
View ArticleModern spokesmen for the Prophet Mohamad & the Crusades: ‘Awake Saladdin, we...
‘Davutoglu & Gueant: Lune et Croissant de Miel!”‘ Go to Source
View Article‘Taliban Using Modern Means to Add to Sway’
Alissa J. Rubin, NYT, Taliban Using Modern Means to Add to Sway, 5 Oct 2011 "Punctually, at 8 o’clock every evening, the cellphone signals disappear in this provincial capital. Under pressure from the...
View ArticleMoroccan prediction on Palestine
The new Moroccan Minister of Industry, Trade, and Modern Technology is a life long activist on Palestine and is a senior figure in the Justice and Development Party. He said that Arab uprisings will...
View ArticleThe Problem of Modern Archives in Egypt
Hussein Omar, in a guest post at Arabic Literature (in English) addresses the question of “Who Should Save Egypt’s Archives?” It’s not, as you might guess, another piece about the Institut d’Egypte...
View ArticleArabic Really Must Still Be Dying: Even the New York Times Says So
It’s been a while since we’ve had a “death of Arabic imminent” article, which I always enjoy dissecting; purists have been complaining about the threat to the language since the lexicographer Ibn...
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