#arabic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arabic, aggregated by home.social.
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Rojava institution pushes for official status of…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The co-chair of the Kurdish Language Institute (SZK) said the institution’s main demand in…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #andTurkish. #Arabic #kurdish #publishinginEnglish #RudawisabroadcastanddigitalnewsnetworkbasedintheKurdistanRegionofIraq #Syria
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/113354/ Kurdish-language education in Rojava produces… #AndTurkish #Arabic #Kurdish #PublishingInEnglish #RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq #Syria
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/113321/ Rojava institution pushes for official status of… #AndTurkish #Arabic #Kurdish #PublishingInEnglish #RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq #Syria
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Commun: Food Distro
Harvey Park Community Center, Thursday, May 14 at 11:30 AM MDT
The food market coordinator at Commun, a community center in Harvey Park. Here's info for their weekly distro: Food Distribution Every Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Spanish and Arabic communities largely involved
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Commun: Food Distro
Harvey Park Community Center, Thursday, May 14 at 11:30 AM MDT
The food market coordinator at Commun, a community center in Harvey Park. Here's info for their weekly distro: Food Distribution Every Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Spanish and Arabic communities largely involved
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Commun: Food Distro
Harvey Park Community Center, Thursday, May 14 at 11:30 AM MDT
The food market coordinator at Commun, a community center in Harvey Park. Here's info for their weekly distro: Food Distribution Every Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Spanish and Arabic communities largely involved
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Commun: Food Distro
Harvey Park Community Center, Thursday, May 14 at 11:30 AM MDT
The food market coordinator at Commun, a community center in Harvey Park. Here's info for their weekly distro: Food Distribution Every Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Spanish and Arabic communities largely involved
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Amulet with Arabic inscription, Iraq, 638 AD - 1096 AD
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Amulet with Arabic inscription, Iraq, 638 AD - 1096 AD
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Amulet with Arabic inscription, Iraq, 638 AD - 1096 AD
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Amulet with Arabic inscription, Iraq, 638 AD - 1096 AD
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Amulet with Arabic inscription, Iraq, 638 AD - 1096 AD
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/226309/ India-Africa Summit 2026: A new era of cooperation? #Africa #AfricaForwardSummitInNairobi #AfricaSummit #African #AfricanUnion #Arabic #British #CriticalMineralsCompact #DutchEastIndiaCompany #English #european #france #french #G20 #GlobalSouth #IndependentMedia #india #India–AfricaSummit #iol #Islamic #Namibia #NewDelhi #PhapanoPhasha #portuguese #SouthSouth #SundayIndependent #TheCentreForAlternativePoliticalAndEconomicThought #WhatsApp #Zambia
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Arab troops during the time of the Prophet Muhammad
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2010747/arab-troops-during-the-time-of-the-prophet-muhammad
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Is there still hope? Your donations are our only lifeline. From southern Gaza, we live amidst hunger and destruction We don't ask for much, just dignity and food for our children. Even the smallest donation restores hope and reminds us that we are not alone Donate or share this post 😭💔
https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family#Gaza #SaveGaza #Donate #continued
#introduction #policy #help #partner #perhaps #risk #famine #death #everyone
#children #Mastdon #donation #now #Omar
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Some words in Arabic makes me giggle
طائرة بدون طيار
(Airplane without pilot)
Is what they call a drone.
But in Farsi they use
پَهپاد
Which is the name described asپرندهٔ هدایتپذیر از دور
(Remotely controlled flying object).
I don't know if they have any words in Arabic for it.
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Pretty fly for a white guy
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2004735/pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy
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Pretty fly for a white guy
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2004735/pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy
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Pretty fly for a white guy
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2004735/pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy
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Pretty fly for a white guy
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2004735/pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy
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Pretty fly for a white guy
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2004735/pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy
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Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi (born in 1974 in Doha, #Arabic: سعد أحمد إبراهيم المهنّدي), is currently the #President of the #Qatari public works authority #Ashghal. Saad is fluent in English.
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Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi (born in 1974 in Doha, #Arabic: سعد أحمد إبراهيم المهنّدي), is currently the #President of the #Qatari public works authority #Ashghal. Saad is fluent in English.
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Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi (born in 1974 in Doha, #Arabic: سعد أحمد إبراهيم المهنّدي), is currently the #President of the #Qatari public works authority #Ashghal. Saad is fluent in English.
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Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi (born in 1974 in Doha, #Arabic: سعد أحمد إبراهيم المهنّدي), is currently the #President of the #Qatari public works authority #Ashghal. Saad is fluent in English.
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Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi (born in 1974 in Doha, #Arabic: سعد أحمد إبراهيم المهنّدي), is currently the #President of the #Qatari public works authority #Ashghal. Saad is fluent in English.
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Operation PhantomCLR: Stealth Execution via AppDomain Hijacking and In-Memory .NET Abuse
A highly sophisticated multi-stage post-exploitation framework targeting organizations in the Middle East and EMEA financial sectors exploits legitimate digitally signed Intel utilities through .NET AppDomainManager mechanism abuse. The attack leverages trusted binary proxy execution, bypassing EDR and antivirus solutions through JIT-based memory execution and sandbox evasion using computational delays and cryptographic key derivation loops. Initial access occurs via spear-phishing with Arabic-language decoys impersonating Saudi government documents. Once executed, the framework establishes command-and-control communication through Amazon CloudFront CDN domain fronting, employing reflective DLL loading, direct syscall usage, and anti-forensic memory cleanup techniques. The modular plugin-based architecture demonstrates capabilities consistent with advanced persistent threat actors, featuring sophisticated evasion mechanisms including PEB-based API resolution, custom PE export walking, and heap-walking cont...
Pulse ID: 69e389bd5760ef67b7f37472
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69e389bd5760ef67b7f37472
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-04-18 13:40:13Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#Amazon #Arabic #CDN #Cloud #CyberSecurity #EDR #Government #InfoSec #MiddleEast #NET #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #Proxy #RAT #Rust #SMS #SpearPhishing #bot #AlienVault
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"I want to see ALL the story branches"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1977750/i-want-to-see-all-the-story-branches
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La disposition du clavier AZERTY Arabe s’adresse à tous ceux qui ont l’habitude de saisir en AZERTY pour leurs textes en alphabet latin. En fait, combien de fois vous êtes vous déjà dis « Si seulement il existait un clavier où chaque lettre arabe serait sur la même touche que son équivalent phonétique latin » ? Eh bien, l’AZERTY arabe est ce clavier-là.
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Most western linguistics scholars know that Hebrew is a #Semitic language just like #Arabic. But they analyze it as if it is an IndoEuropean language in which each word is a stack of roots and each root represents a simple concept. A word is a compound concept that is the combination of these single concepts.
However, a #Hebrew letter is really an action/event concept and represents the complete sound of the concept (consonant+vowel), like a Chinese character, originally being a pictograph.
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Most western linguistics scholars know that Hebrew is a #Semitic language just like #Arabic. But they analyze it as if it is an IndoEuropean language in which each word is a stack of roots and each root represents a simple concept. A word is a compound concept that is the combination of these single concepts.
However, a #Hebrew letter is really an action/event concept and represents the complete sound of the concept (consonant+vowel), like a Chinese character, originally being a pictograph.
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Most western linguistics scholars know that Hebrew is a #Semitic language just like #Arabic. But they analyze it as if it is an IndoEuropean language in which each word is a stack of roots and each root represents a simple concept. A word is a compound concept that is the combination of these single concepts.
However, a #Hebrew letter is really an action/event concept and represents the complete sound of the concept (consonant+vowel), like a Chinese character, originally being a pictograph.
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Rediscover Wadjda (2012) — a groundbreaking Saudi coming-of-age film by Haifaa al‑Mansour. Tender, bold, and full of heart; a must-watch for world cinema lovers. Catch this inspiring story on PeerTube and celebrate Arab filmmaking! #Wadjda #HaifaaAlMansour #SaudiCinema #ArabCinema #IndependentFilm #WorldCinema #PeerTube #Arabic
https://peertube.becycle.com/videos/watch/1669751f-2a8d-4eef-95f3-0c563e5709a7 -
🇵🇸 ⛵️️️ #1000Madleens is expanding its international #TRANSLATION team to prepare for the next 🌊 of #fleets.
📣 To do this, we are looking for people who can read and write in English or French to/from at least one of the following languages: #ARABIC, #KOREAN, #MALAY, #DANISH, #DUTCH.
👉️Interested? Fill out the form: https://linktr.ee/thousand.madleens
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Hob Learning’s Upcoming App Aims to Make Levantine Arabic Learning More Accessible Interest in spoken Arabic has been rising steadily as learners increasingly prioritize real-world communication ...
#abdul #aziz #ahwan #arabic #arabic #learning #hob #learning #levantine #arabic
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If he breathes... HE'S A SIMP
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1793434/if-he-breathes-he-s-a-simp
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Sắp ra mắt ứng dụng học đọc tiếng Ả Rập dành cho trẻ em, đặc biệt phù hợp cho các gia đình mới bắt đầu từ con số 0.
Điểm nổi bật:
• Học bảng chữ cái và hình dạng ký tự qua 15-20 hoạt động mỗi chữ.
• Trò chơi tương tác: tập viết, nối chữ và nhận diện âm thanh.
• Lộ trình học tập trực quan giúp trẻ dễ dàng theo dõi tiến độ.
• Giao diện thân thiện, an toàn cho trẻ nhỏ.Ứng dụng hiện đang trong giai đoạn hoàn thiện và chuẩn bị ra mắt.
#Arabic #LearningApp #KidsEducation #HocTiengARap #GiaoDuc #Ng
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Design Principles Of Kashida Justification - A Unique Technique In Arabic And Persian Mapping [overview / tutorial]
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https://doi.org/10.14714/CP107.2055 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #mapmaking #traditions #calligraphy #arabic #persian #cartography #labels #tutorial #learning #software #kashidas #history #presentation #justification -
Coming up in December!
'Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources' brings together studies on #multilingualism, scribal practices, syntactic structures, and socio-pragmatic features of #ancient texts. Edited by Klaas Bentein and Marja Vierros, the volume explores the #linguistic dimensions of non-literary #papyri, highlighting recent advances in #digitalhumanities and linguistic #research.
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I experimented mixing a traditional Japanese obi into #streetwear (knot is kichiya musubi). Actually a mix of several cultures with Arab keffiyeh and South Asian kurta shirt. I made the orange LED lights on the heels of my shoes for a #cyberpunk touch
#fashion #kimono #creative #ootd #sciencefiction #scifi #cyberpunk2077 #cosplay #costume #clothing #culture #multicultural #lunarcore #techwear #obi #japan #japanese #arab #arabic #keffiyeh #southasian #india #indian #southasia #maker #imadethis
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I also wrote a #SPARQL query to see the linguistic composition of the periodical press until 1930 at all locations with titles published in languages of the Eastern Mediterranean: #Arabic, #Ottoman, #Armenian, #Coptic, #Greek, #Farsi, #Ladino, #Azerbaijani
As a table: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/iDOqXyQ6u8ciKSGCYUkEoS02maygCMy8EccoSa8yuWw
As a map with layers for each language, because sometimes geographic distribution is interesting: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/XvayrLG3RwUiau4MWWuUEkkuccWmusCSy4gO888Q489
#Wikidata #PeriodicalStudies #ArabPeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #Multilinguality #multilingualDH
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CALL and DOT
Two conferences in the last three weeks: my first Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (as a speaker), in Leiden as always, and a day and a half of the 35st Deutscher Orientalistentag, in Erlangen.
Both were a lot of fun. I saw many different talks at CALL, too many to summarize, and mostly too off-topic as well. I was there to ask why we think Cushitic forms a single family within Afroasiatic (see also these blog posts). Despite the purposefully provocative title of my talk, I was not assaulted by any angry mobs of Cushiticists.1 The main question seems to be whether we really should disregard the lexicon when looking at subclassification (and then the next question should be whether the lexicon does show that Cushitic is a clade). It was also really cool to see several talks by young researchers whom I taught as first-years and who have now all finished their MAs and partially started PhD projects: shout-outs to Nina van der Vlugt, Melle Groen, and Jeroen van Ravenhorst. Post your slides online, guys!
Kollegienhaus Erlangen.At the DOT, I co-chaired a panel on Semitic (in practice: mostly Hebrew) reading traditions together with Harald Samuel. While some of our presenters sadly had to cancel, we still had a great line-up, with exciting findings in every talk:
Chanan Ariel (Tel-Aviv University) proposed a highly original new explanation for the Biblical Hebrew phenomenon of dehiq, where consonants following certain unstressed vowels are geminated. According to Ariel, this is an orthoepic feature and applies to vocalic suffixes that alternate with zero, as well as some cases where the geminated consonant had to be kept apart from a following guttural. Works really well IMHO.
Aaron Hornkohl (University of Cambridge) provided a thorough discussion of the ketiv-qere phenomenon, presenting an up-to-date linguistic view of its origins and purpose in hopes of spreading more awareness of this to less linguistically inclined Hebrew Bible scholars. One thing that stood out to me is that words that are present in the consonantal text but left unpronounced in the reading tradition (ketiv wela qere) are sometimes translated in targums and other ancient versions.
Jonathan Howard (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented his ongoing PhD research on the “Palestinian” vocalization system of Hebrew and Aramaic and pointed out that so far, there’s really no good evidence that it’s from Palestine. He’s hoping to find some, but it might be more impactful if he doesn’t.
Johan Lundberg (University of Oxford) walked us through the increasing complexity in Syriac punctuation signs, including the development of something that is roughly equivalent to an exclamation mark! Cool fact: in at least one of the few Syriac manuscripts of the entire Bible, the scribe has simply maintained the punctuation of each source text, resulting in several different systems coexisting in the same final work.
Emmanuel Mastey (Tel-Aviv University) presented a nice statistical inquiry into h-final spellings of 2m.sg. perfect verbs in Biblical Hebrew. Besides the very frequent case of נָתַתָּה ‘you gave’, Mastey finds that this spelling is especially common with verbs that have t as their third radical and, less so, with third-weak verbs. He suggests a phonological explanation for both classes; I wonder whether with the III-t roots, it may rather be motivated by the usefulness of distinguishing e.g. שתה ‘you placed’ from שת ‘he placed’.
Isabella Maurizio (University of Lorraine according to the programme, but I think that may be outdated? Sorbonne soon from what she told me) presented her recently completed research on the Second Column of Origen’s Hexapla, the oldest fully vocalized source (in Greek script!) for Biblical Hebrew. Big shock to me: Maurizio dates the Secunda to the 2nd c. BCE-1st c. CE, not the 3rd c. CE!
Marijn van Putten (Leiden University) appeared virtually to frighten the Hebraists with the tricky history of the Qur’anic reading traditions, with examples like one where a certain reader’s Arabic is notably more archaic than that of his teacher’s teacher. Since we barely know anything about who transmitted the Hebrew reading traditions, how much of this stuff are we missing due to a lack of data?
Harald Samuel (University of Tübingen) continued the sceptical line by noting some features of Tiberian Hebrew that appear to be really late (quoting me[!] from an informal conversation in which I said that a certain change must have taken place “about two hours before Ben-Asher went to work that morning”). How do we reconcile this with the alleged presence of extremely early, First Temple period features in the reading tradition as well?
Christian Stadel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented on some clearly late and some unquestionably early features of the Samaritan reading tradition and talked about how it relates to the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch more generally. It reminded me a bit of a presentation I gave on a similar topic several years ago. I only have one semester of Samaritan Hebrew, though—taught by Christian Stadel!—while Stadel is a real expert on the Samaritan languages. So it was reassuring to hear him argue for similar conclusions as well as present a whole lot more interesting data.
Last of all (due to alphabetization, but it worked out alright), I got to present on the project on the construction of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition that I’ve been doing at Leuven since 2019. I’m not sure the argument I presented is fully sound, so it was great to be able to discuss it with some colleagues afterwards.
The Semitics section continued this morning. In her section keynote, Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas Austin) presented her SemitiLEX project (recorded talk by another project member, haven’t watched it yet), looking at cognate Semitic lexemes not just in terms of roots, but also looking at morpho-lexical features like gender and pluralization. Unexpected result: building phylogenetic trees based on these data shows Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic clustering as four or five separate branches, instead of Northwest Semitic clustering together and then being closer to Arabic than to Akkadian.
Maria Rauscher (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny) presented her ongoing work on a dictionary of Arabic verbal nouns, focusing on the difficult case of k-r-h ‘to dislike’. As we had some extra discussion time for both Pat-El’s and Rauscher’s talks, there was time enough for the audience to draw up battle lines and get into the details of linguistic theory (such as: are morphemes even a thing?).
Stefanie Rudolf (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) presented on two Qur’anic phrases that she suggests are unrecognized borrowings from Ethiosemitic. “The Lord of the East and the West” is attested in an Ethiopian Early Sabaic inscription, while Rudolf proposes the Arabic root f-t-w ‘to judge’ may be borrowed from Ethiosemitic f-t-ḥ. While she acknowledges the phonological difficulty of the last case, maybe we should reckon with the possibility of an unknown (South?) Ethiosemitic language that lost the pharyngeals acting as an intermediary: in the beginning of her talk, she pointed out that early Islamic sources refer to an Abyssinian with a name that is not Ge’ez but pre-Amharic (I think Ababut?), which I found very cool.
Jan Retsö (University of Gothenburg) pulled off the trick of reading out a text with no slides or handout while being perfectly easy to follow and entertaining. After an overview of the scholarship on Semitic–Ancient Egyptian cognates and loanwords, Retsö responded to Alexander Borg’s recent claim that there are lots of specifically Arabic loanwords in Egyptian. Retsö thinks there’s something there but urges for methodological precision.
Mohammad I. Ababneh (University of Halle) presented on some difficulties in Safaitic paleography, including merged letters and ligatures and other weird letter shapes. Nice to see some discussion of former Leiden colleague Chiara Della Puppa’s dissertation!
Finally, Vera Tsukanova (Philipps-Universität Marburg) took a look at the phonological adaptation of Persian loanwords into Arabic from a Semiticist and diachronic perspective. Historical differences in aspiration go a long way in accounting for prima facie unexpected sounds in borrowings.
And now, the conference is kind of on hold for various business meetings, which I took as my cue to leave. In conclusion, I would like to note that I am posting this from a high-speed train, which feels very futuristic. While some discussions in the field stay the same for what seems like forever—Paul Kahle’s lecture at the first DOT in 1922 was referenced multiple times—I take this as a sign that like Deutsche Bahn passengers, no matter the inevitable delays, detours, and frustrations, overall, we are getting somewhere.
- Only by a toddler, possibly for unrelated reasons. ↩︎
#Akkadian #Amharic #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Bible #Cushitic #EastCushitic #Egyptian #Hebrew #linguistics #Samaritans #Syriac #Ugaritic
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From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024
[A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.
From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.
in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
Traduction en #français : Romane Frachonhttps://cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6XRRa6jG
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
@[email protected]
@cubainfo
@[email protected] -
From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024
[A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.
From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.
in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
Traduction en #français : Romane Frachonhttps://cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6XRRa6jG
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
@[email protected]
@cubainfo
@[email protected] -
From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024
[A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.
From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.
in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
Traduction en #français : Romane Frachonhttps://cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6XRRa6jG
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
@[email protected]
@cubainfo
@[email protected] -
From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024
[A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.
From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.
in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
Traduction en #français : Romane Frachonhttps://cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6XRRa6jG
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
@[email protected]
@cubainfo
@[email protected] -
From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024
[A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.
From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.
in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
Traduction en #français : Romane Frachonhttps://cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6XRRa6jG
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
@[email protected]
@cubainfo
@[email protected] -
Some talks from Formulaic Language in Historical Linguistics
Since last April, I’ve been working part-time on the AlUla Inscriptions Corpus Analysis Project (AICAP) at Ghent University. The researchers are spread out over four different countries, but this week, we all converged on Helsinki, Finland, to take part in a workshop on formulaic language—a major feature of the North Arabian corpora we’re working on.
Helsinki’s iconic Tuomiokirkko, the Lutheran cathedral (there’s a separate Orthodox one that is also very nice). Can you spot the four-horned altars?To my slight disappointment, most of the presenters seemed to be asking very different questions than the kind I normally associate with historical linguistics. Was it just me?
https://bsky.app/profile/bnuyaminim.bsky.social/post/3lqop6jn5ik2g
While most of the replies went for my preferred answer A, there were a few B’s too. Since my followers probably skew towards agreeing with me, that supports the possibility that a large chunk of scholars use “historical linguistics” to mean “linguistics but on texts from history times”. Which is fine! Maybe we should start using a different term for A, as done here by the Venerable Bate.
https://bsky.app/profile/dannybate.bsky.social/post/3lqormvmcjs2m
Regardless of terminology, it’s the type A research that I tend to be most interested in. So I’d like to highlight the couple of talks that did focus on those kinds of diachronic questions, together with a few others.
On Monday, Francesca Schironi talked about how Hipparchus (2nd c. BCE) used formulaic language to present a bunch of astronomical data in a way that makes it easier for the reader to navigate. Where later authors put data in tables, Hipparchus has set formulas to let you know what star in what constellation he’s talking about, what star culminates at its rising and setting, and so forth.
Jorge Alejandro Wong Medina talked about the use of different Greek dialects in the Homeric epics. Wong showed that some forms with Aeolic features, like néessi ‘ships (dat.)’, could only have been created by speakers of an Ionic dialect. This shows that they are not retentions from a hypothesised “Aeolic phase” of the epic tradition, but were artificially created to fit the metre.
This is about as dark as Helsinki gets this time of year.On Tuesday, I got to chair our project’s panel, not having anything of my own to present yet. Although these talks were nearly the only ones that were fully about non-European languages, it was good to see them attract a very sizeable audience (other outliers included Riccardo Ginevra, Erica Biagetti et al. on Homeric Greek and Vedic Sanskrit and a talk by Daniele Di Pasquale on Old Korean that I missed).
Jérôme Norris introduced the various pre-Islamic epigraphic corpora of Northern Arabia and talked about how they used different formulas. While some are limited to just one writing tradition (like Nabataean šlm ‘may he be well’), others occur in different corpora and may have been borrowed or inherited between scripts/languages.
Julia Maczuga investigated the origins of the formulas seen in Early Islamic inscriptions from the region. While many are new (and usually explicitly Islamic in meaning), there’s also a large set of formulas that show continuity with pre-Islamic corpora. Some of these have even wider-ranging connections, being used in non-Arabian languages like Greek too.
Fokelien Kootstra-Ford, the project’s PI, presented some of her work on Dadanitic, where formula usage is just one way in which the corpus shows considerable variety. AICAP’s fieldwork has also turned up a previously unknown formula, attested in inscriptions at one site only, prompting a discussion of what it might mean and how we can figure that out in the first place.
(I’ve got some nice pictures of these presentations but I haven’t asked the speakers for permission to use them. Maybe they’ll appear on the project’s Instagram page at some point.)
Finally, I also enjoyed Samuel Peter Cook‘s talk on Greek calquing in Coptic legal texts. The two main examples he discussed were e-u ōrej ‘as a security’ which accurately follows the semantics, not the form of the equivalent Greek pròs aspháleian, and the first person singular performative e-i-sōtm, a finite verb, which Cook argues started out as a non-finite circumstantial present calquing Greek participles.
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#YaGhayeb feels like a hybrid between a #drama #series based on a true story, and a #docuseries intended to clean-up the artist’s image. The end product is a mixed bag of “meh”.
#review #reviews #NowStreaming #Shahid #Mbc #ArabicSeries #Arabic #FadelChaker
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#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
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#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers