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Are you not capable of reading?

Do you realize that all the people I quoted are real life south Africans and ANC members who fought against apartheid?

So what, they're liars or something? Is that it?

You're going to seriously fucking quote me an article by fucking Benjamin Pogrund, an Israeli writer, while dismissing the fucking bevy of actual south Africans that are very very clearly telling you you're wrong?

Do you not realize that Israel's entire political and economic system is racist? You want racist laws, here are some. You want racist policies? Here are some

I found the source.

https://the-eye.eu/public/WorldTracker.org/Military/Osprey%20Military%20History%20-%20Warrior%20Series/010%20-%20Saracen%20Faris%201050-1250AD.pdf

"Arab Cavalryman, Early 12th century" page 49

I took it apart and made this terrible meme. Please downvote me.

https://i.imgur.com/ScwXLqr.png

Yossef Bodansky. Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument Co-Produced by The Ariel Center for Policy Research and The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, 1999. ISBN 978-0-9671391-0-4, see also The Encyclopedia of World History By Peter N. Stearns, William Leonard Langer p. 527. 2001.

My quote and citation are both lifted straight from Wikipedia. Amazon link to Bodansky's book here.

Last year we announced release of "Alef: Learn Arabic for Kids" on Android, and a lot of you had asked us to keep them in the loop when the iOS version gets released. Today we're doing just that!

What's unique about the app is that you can choose to teach your kids Arabic in different dialects: Classical Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, Palestinian Arabic and Syrian Arabic. The app is aimed at kids who are at least a year old.

Let us know what you think of the app, and please share the app with your friends and family.

Link to iOS App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alef-learn-arabic-for-kids/id1172136601

Link to Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alef.learn.arabicforkids

They are speaking a highly divergent form of Arabic. Here is some more information about the Central Asian dialects.

He has said many times that there will never be a Palestinian state.

I just got done with this clusterfuck thread in r/chess of all places. I could swear it was brigaded at one point. It annoyed me so much I'm going to download that Zionist brigading app.

Send me the links to any Zionist brigading apps you know. If it's just lists of links then there's nothing stopping us from using them as well

Edit: the Act for Israel app is here. Right on the fucking play store. I wonder if Google would allow a self-professed Russian or Chinese propaganda app to remain on their play store

His army was predominantly Kurdish (to which he probably spoke said language) and Turkish, not at all Arab. The Kurdish tribes of Bashnawiyya, Shahrazuri, Humaydiyya, Zarzariyya, Hakkariyya, Hadhbaniyya contributed not only a large amount of the troops and emirs of his army, but also scholars, judges etc. Key persons include those like Isa-Hakkari, al-Mashtub, etc. Also possibly Ibn al-Athir, Ibn Khalikkan etc.

His Kurdish ancestry was well-known in the time period. Ibn Khalikkan related that he was of the Rawadiyya tribe, from a Kurdish village called Ajdanaqan in Armenia. Some of his family members bore the nisba al-Kurdi. He was even taunted by Turkish troops because of his ancestry, and other emirs were convinced for supporting him partly through Saladin's Kurdish ancestry, from 'Uses and Values of the Term Kurd in Arabic Medieval Literary Sources':

"Ibn Khallikân, Kitâb wafayât al-a‘yân wa anbâ’Abnâ’ al-zamân, vol. 7, p. 153, 155. During the negotiations relating to the investiture to the Fatimid vizierate, 'Isâ al-Hakkârî, a Kurd, persuaded Qutb al-Dîn Tulayl to drop his candidacy in favor of Saladin: “Saladin and you are both from the same group. He is from kurdish origin (inna aslahu min al-akrâd). Then you won’t let the power pass to the Turks. He promised to increase his income. So he obeyed Saladin (atâ‘ahu)”"

I agree that he was Arabised to a certain degree; he must've been, since he led a population that was primarily Arab, but the Kurdish influence in his dynasty is not to be underestimated.

If you can read French, I suggest you read Saladin et les Kurdes, by French historian Boris James, to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

>The UAE's consanguinity rate is 73.3% according to this source https://books.google.com/books?id=HDIa0tyllqgC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88

That's not what the source says, 73.3% is the percentage of cousin marriages which happen between a man and his mother's sister's' daughter or his father's brother's daughter. Your source is actually in agreement with OP's study, with the UAE having an overall consanguinity rate of 37.4% and Qatar is at 44.5%.

>In a 2014 study about KSA consanguinity rate in two generations, the researchers are citing outdated sources from 1966-1989 about other countries http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196414/#__ref-listid383747title

First of all, three of the studies are from the 90s, you're being dishonest.

Second, this study sample consists of mostly university students, and it actually claims that consanguinity is much lower then OP's study, however, if you compare it to the larger studies cited you would see that overall Saudi has rates of around 50%, in agreement with OP's study, again.

> I also need a token Iranian friend to go with....that's not anti-Muslim

Most Iranians are not anti-Muslim, as most Iranians are Muslims themselves, even in the diaspora in the States. Statistics are seen in this study where the majority of Iranian-Americans identify as Muslim: https://web.archive.org/web/20081221105629/http://paaia.org/galleries/new-gallery/Survey_of_Iranian_Americans_Final_Report_Dec_10%202008.pdf

> nor a dick

Iranians are like any other group of people. Some are dicks, some are not. Saying being a dick is a uniquely Iranian characteristic is frankly bigoted.

I think communism is one of the worst ideas in human history, but the dude is right that communism is definitely an ideology.

"Ideology, N., a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy."

Communism sure sounds like it fits that bill to me.

Edit: for what it's worth, the Encyclopedia Britannica also lists Communism under the category "ideology": http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism

Some of the new apartment buildings that are popping up all over Kuwait.

Spilled water on the desk while half-awake and mistook it for outer space.

Yeah if you want a more complete explanation than I can give (I'm not really a historian but I've read a lot), I suggest this.

I also heard this book is good, but I haven't read it. It's intended to be way more complete history, not just about French Algeria.

Here’s the link to the book from which the excerpt was taken: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Narratives-inside-mind-forged-manacles/dp/B08BRLHWDB/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593413553&sr=8-1

Is this true? https://twitter.com/aa_arabic/status/492898527274872832

Edit: this article is marvelous: http://mashable.com/2014/07/26/israel-admissions-gaza-whisper/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

My favorite is "if i was a citizen of Gaza, i would be outraged my government let us be poor while spending its money on a network of tunnels." Speak of a disconnect from reality ....

Not really surprising, that website attracts more traffic on Islam than any other page and is the most popular website on Islam worldwide according to Alexa. If you google any question about Islam, they come up first 90% of the time. The Saudis spend a lot of money on Wahhabi publications and that's increasingly noticeable from how all the Breitbart keyboard crusaders perceive Islam.

Read Johann Hari's book Lost connections

The title says depression but it's also about anxiety.

Downsize your life, greatly. Be content with who you are and what you have. It's a cliche but people dont do it, especially the young. Travel (after covid) but don't be a tourist, talk to the people around you and ask them what makes them happy and content. Decide for yourself what makes them happy and content.

Reflect on the real reason you might have anxiety. There is a reason. Reflect on your childhood. Were you forced to be a certain way, or else? A lot of Arab parents are this way. Mine were, and so were the parents of almost everyone I know.

An incredible statistic I once saw was that Arab medical students are the most depressed med students in the world. These are the kids who should be happy because they've pleased their parents. It's probably the parents, then.

You dont have to turn into one of those people who blame their parents for everything, but there are always a few big things that stem from those precious development years.

Always be honest. Avoid motivational and any new wisodm. It's all polluted. Expose yourself to the ancient things. The Gospel, The Quran, the ancient philosophers, and ancient history. Life is very long.

Spend more time with your family. Get to know them as people. Many of the answers you're looking for are within them. Ask your extended family about your parents, what trials they faced, their personalities when they were young.

TLDR - read Lost Connections by Johann Hari.

Shameless plug. That's why we developed Alef: Teach Arabic for Kids, which is an App that teaches Arabic for kids in 5 different Arabic dialects. Download the Android version from here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alef.learn.arabicforkids

Does anyone know the name for the type of Arabic fonts represented by Cairo, Tajawal, Almarai, and Changa that have larger x-height compared to more "traditional" fonts?

Literacy was widespread in Arabia. The stories of illiteracy are polemical and based on a misunderstanding of the word ummi. See this great article: https://www.academia.edu/8811286/Qurʾānic_ummī_Genealogy_Ethnicity_and_the_Foundation_of_a_New_Community_Jerusalem_Studies_in_Arabic_and_Islam_43_2016_pp._1-60_

Yes. It's like the general White population "actively" discriminating against Black people in the US.

Like I said discrimination/sectarianism is a complicated thing not always black and white.

Here is a good interesting video series I watched on NYT about implicit bias. https://www.nytimes.com/video/who-me-biased

>Nothing has happened to the Palestinian Christians , they are still here and the only person persecuting them is israel

Refer to this.

Oddly specific question, but does anyone know a good place to buy board games in Amman? Not talking Risk or Monopoly or any of that weak shit, I'm talking the real thing.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/13/middleeast/yemen-children-school-bus-strike-intl/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-13T09%3A03%3A32&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNi

inb4 shell replies saying they were going to be future houthis anyway. fuck the houthis, but more importantly fuck the saudi government. i pray for the destruction of the houthi militias and the arab forces destroying yemen.

There are so many ugly examples of the French trying to replicate our architecture and failing miserably, like this and this

https://archive.org/details/MT3AL

في إطار ما ذكر العرق بحق شروح الدواوين، هاك إعراب المعلقات العشر لفتح الكبير المتعال وتعتبر المعلقات أعذب ما ألّفه العرب من الشعر قبل مجيء الإسلام

لكل قصيدة إعراب جملها وشرح معنى مفرداتها وأبياتها

Have you tried to run any searches through Google Scholar yet? Even if the service doesn't often link directly to the citation, it can at least provide you with a starting point.

Follow-up on my new life in the middle of nowhere.

Tomorrow is my first day at work !

And there's a bus in town ! It's operating since... today. So, instead of getting ready for tomorrow, i spent the afternoon searching for all the bus stops. I marked them on my gps device and back home i mapped the bus route and uploaded the whole thing on OSM (edit : for obvious reasons, i won't link to my upload).

There's a few mistakes left i guess, but i'm too tired to do anything about it.

OSM is fine and all, specially for small towns like this one where google maps is beyond shitty, but is it time consuming.

After I find an Arabic version I get a DVDRip version in English that has good video from torrent websites like YIFY or ThePirateBay. I then use this tool to choose which audio and video track I want, it's a really good program. https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html#windows

The buy-in is less than that, IIRC. Here's a full plan for Live Free. You can see how they capped the Binary Profits (unless you sink money every 12 weeks to raise the cap).

Yeah, I can see why he's an ex-friend, I lost a former classmate to it. You don't have to feel good, you just have to think "I wasted so much money on this, let me try to recoup my losses" or "if I put more effort into it, I can make $12,500 USD a week".

It can work for some people, just not me. It's too convoluted and destroys social networks.

Recently made this if you're interested, , it's an interactive map that shows the most prevalent Y-DNA Haplogroup by country.

EDIT:

My DNA test:

72% Italy/Greece , 11% Europe east, 7% Caucasus, 5% Middle East, 3% Europe west , 2% North Africa

My Y-DNA Haplogroup is R

1. Plato's The Republic VII: Allegory of the Cave

2. The Alchemist by: Paulo Coehlo

3. 1984 by: George Orwell

4. Men in the Sun by: Ghassan Kanafani

5. The Art of War by: Sun Tzu

Poetry:

In the Presence of Absence by: Mahmoud Darwish.

I call dibs.

No but srsly I think the middle east could do with a movement that empowers people on an individual level, vaguely looking back at the past 100 years I don't think we've had one. Not to say that we should accept and replicate it as is present in the West but do what our ancestors always did best and take certain aspects of something to make it our own I mean one could argue that this ideal in excess amongst the West is a cause of a lot of their problems too I have a nice quote from Psychologist Martin Seligman who wrote in his book Learned Optimism about this kind of philosophy

>Where can one now turn for identity, for purpose, and for hope? When we need spiritual furniture, we look around and see that all the comfortable leather sofas and stuffed chairs have been removed and all that’s left to sit on is a small, frail folding chair: the self

For those interested, here's an article intended to a non-expert audience.

I remember watching a documentary on arte about it.

Both documents, the article and the documentary, are in french.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia-what-to-know-1.2858230

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/13/canadian-government-lied-over-12bn-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia

Yep, which is why Obama wants to remove the human rights conditions on aid to Egypt. It's very important for the US that Egypt keeps receiving the economic incentive to play nice with Israel.

It's from James P. Rubin.

In reply to an earlier exhortation from Mr. Rubin, Clinton replies, "From: H < > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:24 PM To: jamierubin Subject: Re: some thoughts on Libya Your ideas and advice are always welcome. Thx for reaching out since I'm trying to herd cats." Link

She rarely replies personally to journalists.

I generally take Wikileaks with a grain of salt, but if they're to be believed then the US was involved in Syria as far back as 2006, stirring up paranoia of an imminent coup in the Assad regime, hoping to cause an 'overreaction'. The aforementioned cable. It's hard to argue with leaked diplomatic cables, and so in all likelihood there was some element of Western conspiracy to remove Assad long before the events that took place in 2011.

Why they'd want to do something like that is speculation at this point, so I won't go into that.

I was reading this really interesting piece by Hoyland (not Holland, don't get them confused) about writing a biography of the messenger, its well worth reading.
Also, some of the very recent replies by shlin28 have been amazing, like this one here
I highly recommend people read his replies.
It has impacted on my view of Islam, I still am a believed, not as great a practicer as I'd like to be, but if anything was going to shake my faith its the fact that a religion that's meant to be the final message from god doesn't have the solid backing from a historical point of view, and we're meant to ...fill in the blanks when it comes to making decrees and rulings, and those blanks don't seem to be getting smaller, but rather are getting bigger...
Maybe I'm being too harsh, I just find it interesting that this period specifically is lacking in documentation.
Edit: forgot to add link

Very Hard to pick just one, from a designer point of view I like fonts that are clean, readable, modern, have multiple wights and support Arabic and Latin letters. • Cocon Next Arabic • Bahij TheSansArabic and other Bahij Fonts like Helvetica Neue

but from a beauty point of view I love Thuluth the most

يعني تخصص حضرتك لغوي بحت. أصل أنا قابلت أشخاص قبل كدا على الإنترنت من أطراف الكوكب بيدرسوا لغة عربية لغرض تاني سواء سياسة، تاريخ أو دراسات دينية.

والكلام الحلو إللي على مصر دا لإني مصري ولَّا علشان البلد عجبتك؟ D= على أي حال أنا واثق من إنك سمعت "الصينيين أحسن ناس" قبل كدا من ناس مصريين D=

بالنسبة للإسبرانتو أصل أنا السنة إللي فاتت قررت بعد سنين من التكاسل (أو علوقية بالمصري) إني أتعلم إسبرانتو ولقيت إن ليها تاريخ طويل في الصين وأشخاص كتير من متحدثيها من الصين وأغلبية أعضاء موقغ lernu.net من الصين فكان عندي فضول بإعتبار إن حضرتك عندك ميول لغوية تكون على علم بيها، بس أختلف في إنها مواجهة للإنقراض لإنها أولاً أكتر اللغات المصطنعة من حيث عدد المتحدثين بيتكلمها 5 مليون وفي زيادة مستمرة. ممكن زي مأنا قولت إن عدد سكان الصين كبير ومتنوع فممكن إنها تكون مغمورة وسطهم.

بس أمانة عليك لما الصين تسيطر على العالم وتكون الماندرين هى لغة العالم بدل الإنجليزية تاخد بإيدنا واحدة واحدة علشان في نغمات وحوارات وكلام كبير D=

على العموم فرصة سعيدة وبالتوفيق في حياتك المهنية.

I love you man, saw your other comment with the octopus :P In all honesty, I actually still have snails in my kitchen as we speak because I was missing france a lot plus wanted to be exotic and what not. Even bought this from Amazon to place them in and make it all authentic looking

They really taste like mushrooms, a bit chewy, and even have the same texture/consistency. However, snails or escargot are normally prepared with garlic butter so they are delicious

If you're on Chrome then use ZenMate VPN from the Chrome store, shit's free.

If you're on a phone then try Spotflux or HotSpotShield but tbh if you live in the Middle East you probably have that anyway. :P

Hey there! I absolutely love that idea, it reminds me a bit of the @iraqiword account on insta, which is an initiative I follow and support too.

For the graphic design part, you could install the canva app which makes designing posts for social media very easy. It also allows you to create templates. It's available on iOS too.

As for social media and marketing, look up some social media tools that makes sharing your content easy and accessible. You could use buffer for example to schedule your posts.

Anyway, hope that helped a little. Definitely keep us posted :)

It's really hard to say that, because a lot of books did influence me on different topics , for example; on the economical side The Wealth Of Nations had a huge impact on my understanding of economics. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big this book showed me another face of failure sometimes we need to fail in order to get what we want, I would also mention Working with emotional intelligence, الامتاع والمؤانسة، homo deus.

Non-mobile: Inventing Lebanon

^That's ^why ^I'm ^here, ^I ^don't ^judge ^you. ^PM ^/u/xl0 ^if ^I'm ^causing ^any ^trouble. ^WUT?

كاريكاتير ناجي العلي (دار الفارابي للنشر)

رابط امازون (غير متوافر حالياً)

I switched to a tea candle years ago. Works like a charm. You'll need a different type of mabkhara, something like this. It burns far more gently than coal.

All the best brother <3 They really misunderestimated ISIS' strength. Turns out they actually have like 700 soldiers and not 6,000. News just in that we already took the city centre but there still are clashes. My only concern is that we could see a tactical retreat and further terrorist attacks in Tripoli : /

oh well more on here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/libyan-forces-claim-ousted-isis-sirte-final-stronghold

I don't think you understood what I was getting at,

You are at least somewhat aware of how that side operates, right?

Go to 4chan's pol,bitchute,etc

All of these are pretty anonymous(so the government can't find out where they are) or are peer to peer(so the government literally cannot shut them down)

Say what you will about them but they know how to stay anonymous.

Again, laws like these just serve as ammunition for these people.

spend some time browsing these areas of the internet, you'll understand that a lot of these people are that way because they think they're "under attack"

> Tradition on the other hand takes multiple generations, but that's not what we're talking about. Culture is fluid, and can exist for short periods of time or longer periods of time.

A quick search on thesaurus reveals that culture is synonymous with tradition, it's the 3rd word, ffs.

You deleted the thread and didn't five a chance to reply.

Anyway I didnt't mean shift as in shift from one language to other, but indeed retaining any phonological development from other languages.

> Classical Arabic and Old Hijazi were actually innovative in voicing ض and ظ. > >Source: https://www.academia.edu/20913515/Al-Jallad._2015._On_the_Voiceless_Reflex_of_ṣ_and_ṯ_in_pre-Hilalian_Maghrebian_Arabic

Are there other paper besides this one? Because it seems that the thesis is a bit novel and relies on the interpretation of the author without much data to rely on.

you do not need a linguist opinion Ahamad al jallad subscribes to a school of thought that wants to steal our history

here's some of his statements: 1. "Arabic must look like Classical Arabic; any divergences disqualify a text’s status as Arabic" https://www.academia.edu/12755223/2015_More_reflections_on_the_linguistic_map_of_pre-Islamic_Arabia classical arabic means quaranic arabic. he and other biased scholars are holding Arabic to a unique rule that does NOT apply to any other language in the world. which if it is NOT like Quaranic Arabic, It is NOT Arabic they simply erased hundreds of years of our history.

1. "The ethnicon “Arab” was used to refer to diverse peoples, many of whom we know very well did not speak a variety of Arabic." https://www.academia.edu/7583140/Graeco-Arabica_I_the_southern_Levant.

so now ancient arabs did not speak arabic and since these ancient people did not speak arbic, we have to invent a name for their language, then we force this made up identity on them finally, the people of Country X were NOT arabs

for some reason, Ahmad Al-jallad is facilitating the theft of our heritage and history.

why so mad?

there's a tame-frame for usage of the word, and the linguistic evidence they don't intersect. it is that simple the language spoken by what greeks called phoenicians, is not the language semitists call phoenician. if you want to, I can pull up an academic paper written by a lebanese person, that aknowledge that pheonician is a anachronistic .

like this one "I would define “Phoenician” identity as a Greek invention, emphasized by stereotypes and adopted in modern times. It is also slightly anachronistic in the sense that the term was invented in the Iron Age, but the culture goes back to the Late Bronze Age. This is not the identity that the inhabitants of the Iron Age central Levantine coast related to"

https://www.academia.edu/8351302/Beyond_Stereotypes_Phoenician_Identity_and_Material_Culture

Both volumes exists in full form in Arabic online, but I'm uncertain if there has even been a translation for English. I will ask my elders, my friend.

Personally, I read this translation, and I believe it did it justice. I try to stay away from the simplified Pevear and Volokhonsky versions, as they alter the writing to the point where words lose weight.

For The Idiot, read Eva Martin's translation here.

I got a book called "Arab nationalism in the Twentieth Century" in the airport today and started reading it. Anyone read it before? I finished the first two chapters and it seems good so far.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2081486.Arab_Nationalism_in_the_Twentieth_Century?from_search=true

Yeah funnily enough I've seen some of her fonts before, but there is no "Open Source" free option.

I make no money from Wudooh and I don't intend on it either, it's fully free and open source, so I rely on the free and open source fonts in the web. I may have seen some of these premium fonts on third party sites for free but I don't want to get in any legal trouble (not that there would be any, since again I'm not making money, it would only be a removal request or something).

My point is, I can't get these, and I'm a little annoyed but I understand. But it would have been nice if the site provided some kind of "Non-profit" option, like "Hey I like your font, can I use it in my charity website or application". I don't want to sound like a dick because I know fonts are not easy to make (there are waaaaay too many glyphs) but still it would be nice to have some kind of option to support non profit organizations to make use of your great creations. Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant, but it's because it's bothered me a lot months ago when I was looking for fonts and still does today.

Anyway, most of the fonts Wudooh uses are courtesy of Google Fonts as well as some of the standard browser built-ins like Traditional Arabic and Urdu Typesetting. I am looking around online for more to add that are also open source licensed, but I wanted to ask users first.

Sorry for the long reply, peace to you brother :)

As someone mentioned before, the Medina books are free and will help you in learning the script and grammar of Arabic. This link has the medina books for free PDF download, and has videos if you prefer to learn that way.

Also, once you are familiar with the grammar, this memrise course teaches you all the vocabulary in the Quran from starting with the most frequent words found in the Quran. It is separated into most frequent verbs, and then nouns and other things.

IRA Claims To Be Behind Explosive Devices In London And Glasgow, Police Say

/u/comix_corp thought I might be exaggerating, but I think If a hard border comes, there will definitely be some sort of conflicts with border posts being targeted.

Have you tried Scirbd? Here:

https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/202287757

Also since this is out of print I am guessing it is safe to post this:

http://www.asphaltplayground.net/forums/showthread.php?12716-Sled-Driver-Flying-the-World-s-Fastest-Jet

The post claims to have a link to a PDF of that book. Since I am on my iPad I can't verify. However, another reddit post about this book also links to a PDF download. So it is out there!

Vote for The Arabs. A History by Eugene Rogan

"To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destiny—playing into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a once-mighty people. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests through the British and French colonial periods and up to the present age of unipolar American hegemony. The Arab world is now more acutely aware than ever of its own vulnerability, and this sense of subjection carries with it vast geopolitical consequences.Drawing from Arab sources little known to Western readers, Rogan’s The Arabs will transform our understanding of the past, present, and future of one of the world’s most tumultuous regions."

Here's the goodreads page

Well, I'm going to read it anyway, whether or not it is selected :p

https://www.23andme.com/

I ordered it when it was on sale for $60 and $10 shipping(US). They sent me a tube to spit in. The process of returning it was very easy. You return it in the same box they sent you the tube in. It already has the address on it and everything. About 3 weeks later, I got my results.

There is nothing better than VLC, it's free and it supports formats that have not been developed yet. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

To add subtitle files check https://www.wikihow.com/Add-Subtitles-to-a-Movie/Video-on-VLC VLC player is the best thing that has happened to video, it restores your faith in humanity while converting any file format to anything short of making you a cup of coffee, who knows, it may happen soon.

You are right, the results vary according to a test's reference population database. But once you do an autosomal dna test from AncestryDNA or 23andme, you can upload it to gedmatch. On gedmatch, there are dozens of tests, each with different reference population database. You can look up their databases yourself. Gedmatch is just a hub of these different SNP analysis tools. Those that analyze more than 100,000 SNP blocks are generally accurate modulo the reference population.

Personally, after reading AncestryDNA's white paper, I became more confident of their results. I encourage you to check it out.

And yeah, 23andme had issues with MENA admixtures, they were clumping ME heredity in NA and East Med heredity with ME or something along those lines. But, I think they have fixed it recently.

edit:typo

I just remembered some middle eastern Arab tv interviewer was asking an Algerian fan a question after a soccer game years ago. It’s a pretty popular video and really hilarious tbh lmfaooo. The man said: “حقرونا صديقي حقرونا”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldeEvw7XJOc

As in: “ they did us dirty bro, they did us dirty” Like they were unfair or whatever

The interviewer said “اتكلم بالعربي"

And so I went my whole life thinking that التحقير wasn’t an Arabic term. Low and behold I researched it just now and I find out it means exactly what it’s used to mean in our dialect.

التحقير

Noun Meaning: vilification contempt insult degradation humiliation disparagement abasement devaluation disdain

https://context.reverso.net/translation/arabic-english/تحقير

For example, if someone is an abuser we Call them حقار او حقارة

And if you wanna say someone took advantage of you or abused you or something negative along those lines you say “هو حقرني" etc

Anyways even tho it’s a hilarious video clip I just am a bit annoyed again 😅

What you're saying isn't true. There are plenty of examples of "bit" and "bat" in Arabic. Just off the top of my head, Harry Potter:

وحجرة الأسرار

Hajra? Hujra? If you didn't know the name of the book already you'd have no idea what the title was about.

And secondly, u/mansourlagaffe is wrong. Tibet is written how I spelled it. See here.

And thirdly, we could easily write your paragraph by removing all vowels in longer words and it would still be very readable. If students were taught to read it without vowels from birth then they'd be totally used to it.

I'm not saying you're wrong, there probably is more lexical differentiation in English than in Arabic. Just that writing Arabic without tashkeel is something that developed not entirely for linguistic reasons.

Contrary to what was mentioned in the article, citizens of countries like China or Iraq dont necessarily need a vpn, a mere dns provider like https://surfshark.com/trust-dns allows access to whatsapp and other social media apps. Just to bring in at least some positivity for Iraqi citizens and internet users..stay strong guys

However u put an Iranian province yet u excluded Chad because it is not a majority Arab?

that’s all I can say

The same basic model is maintained in Heuhnergard and Rubin 2011 https://www.academia.edu/1421133/2011_Phyla_and_Waves_Models_of_Classification._Semitic_Languages_ch._9

The large branches of the family can be explained through a tree model and areal waves can explain why certain languages that are not particularly close share features in common, such as the p>f sound change.

The Ethiopia-Semitic languages are no longer considered south Semitic by the majority of scholars. In fact the south Semitic sub branch has largely been abandoned. For the classification of Semitic see: https://www.academia.edu/2603460/The_subgrouping_of_the_Semitic_languages

See I'm not even arguing against MSA at all. The linguistic situation in the Arab world appears quite stable, and I doubt it will significantly change any time soon. My evidence for this is that even 100 years ago Jibran Khalil Jibran was completely freaking out about ما هو مستقبل اللغة العربية? and yet today nobody could possible say in all honesty that Arabic is an endangered language. And yet that's exactly the kind of panic that you hear all the time. I'm reminded in particular of this article if you care to take a look.

Yeah I use ExpressVPN (have to pay for this one) and when I switch to Egyptian Netflix the film still doesn’t come up (though I know that it works since other movies/shows that aren’t normally on my Netflix appear, including other Egyptian productions). Soooo strange.

I grow and smoke weed for that. I’m actually high right now but nothing triggers me like someone claiming to be Arab and being friendly with Zionism.

https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Prison-Earth-Occupied-Territories/dp/1786073412/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&amp;qid=1607465868&amp;refinements=p_27%3AIlan+Pappe&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-4&amp;text=Ilan+Pappe

Fuck off Diet Zionist. I’m sure Allah likes that you are friendly with the people killing us and forcing us out of our land.

https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-p13n1_0?cv_ct_cx=the+ethnic+cleansing+of+palestine&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+ethnic+cleansing+of+palestine&amp;pd_rd_i=1851685553&amp;pd_rd_r=7e4f...

https://www.amazon.com/Modest-Proposal-Dissolution-United-America-ebook/dp/B00OVTFK92/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&amp;hasWorkingJavascript=1&amp;keywords=a+modest+proposal+dissolution&amp;qid=1606935844&amp;sr=8-3

Inshallah. The next four years will be a legislative molasses. I’m so glad Republicans stole two SCOTUS seats.

Get fucked America

Get fucked France too

شيء رخيص

https://www.amazon.com/DIPLOMAT-FLAGS-1335-1338-landscape-0-65sqft-20x30cm/dp/B00DRLKX6A/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?dchild=1&amp;keywords=flag+of+hejaz&amp;qid=1605017772&amp;sr=8-9

شيء غالي

https://www.amazon.com/magFlags-1335-1338-landscape-2-16m²-120x180cm/dp/B00G7N2GGU/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=flag+of+hejaz&amp;qid=1605017772&amp;sr=8-6

Just typed بزر on Amazon usa. Maybe you cant hunt from there as most results show the smaller sized Egyptian ones not these big afghani as they're called in Ammam

بصراحة أروع من كونه مجاني، هو مستوى الدقة فيه، رهيب انصحكم به وهو من مساهمة جامعة بواشنطن (يمكن التوجه للإعدادات ثم خيارات الوصول واختيار التطبيق هناك :Accessibility, Live Transcribe.). التطبيق متوفر بأجهزة أندرويد 10، وهو على بلاي ستور، https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.audio.hearing.visualization.accessibility.scribe&amp;hl=en

Salam,

Made a multiplayer "Tunisian" variation of rummy ( the playing card game) for android and ios.

Right now the game is on Beta phase and in need of some testers, it would be great if some pple can join.

The game is very similar to, Saudi hand and quatorze.

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كارطه تونسية

All feedback are welcome!
Thank you

If you are interested in a website, I recommend elahmad website (http://www.elahmad.com/tvlive/) work great and have almost all channels you may expect, I'm using it since 2014 (B.S. the Ads are the only annoying thing in it and sometimes not appropriate). Give it a try. (Browse it as Desktop)

One of my friends recommended an Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arabictv.free2020) I guess it cast the channel! I didn't try it because I liked the website.

I used Kodi (you can install it on any device you don't need IPTV box for it) and search for m3u list and add them but it's totally not worth it, don't waste your time in it. As well, do not buy IPTV subscriptions or bullshit IPTV box from China, useless and after a certain time, they stop it and stop responding to the messages. In addition, most of them are illegal.

If you want there is a good online website that provides such services but costs around 12-24$/month. Just google it.

Many channels provide live service on YT you can make a playlist for the Arabic channel and add all your favorite channels.

And again, the elahmad website will make you satisfied with stream and number of channels. DIY, buy a Raspberry Pi r3 (would be enough) or use an old laptop, with remote software to control the OS remotely, and that's it.

Hope it's useful.

It's a diet created by some doctors/researchers back in the 70s with the purpose of helping people suffering of epilepsy. But it has been adopted by many people because of its many benefits not only on brain, but also weight loss, well-being, general health and fitness.

You basically teach your body to rely on fats as its main energy source, instead of carbs. You do that by limiting the amount of carbs you take daily and increase fats. Your diet should be: 60-50% fat, 30-35% protein and carbs less than 10% Instead of burning carbs, it will be burning fats both the ones you ate and the ones on your body.

You'll be deprived of so many foods: pasta, couscous, rice, bread, anything sugary, honey, all fruits (except for berries occasionally), starchy vegetables, beans, grains, peas, some dairy products etc.. and focus on foods rich in fats and proteins but which also contain little carbs (avocado, olive oil, fish, green leafy vegetables, coconut, some nuts and some seeds..)

I've read so many articles online both in French and English and I've watched many videos on YT. I think this video is the best, it explains it well and gives nice tips. I've tried many apps but I prefer using this app to count macros (fats, protein and carbs) in every meal I have, to make sure I am not ruining my diet, to learn which foods are keto-friendly and which are not, and to plan for my coming meals.

Today is my day five, I admit going keto is a big investment of time and money, and a serious commitment. My coworkers think I am a total weirdo and crazy for giving up on so many foods.. But I am not complaining. My only complain is that many keto foods can be expensive here (avocado, salmon, porc, chia seeds, soy milk, Brazil nuts...)

and another one :

https://www.amazon.com/House-Wisdom-Science-Knowledge-Renaissance/dp/0143120565

really, there are so manny academic books regarding Islamic golden age

(yes the book title says Arabic scince, and thats because Arabic was the linga franca, so dont cheer too much :D)

Just answer my questions, and no... There r plenty of books that mention golden age of the Islamic world and dark age of Europe

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-xiaomi-rev1&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk034wtcbN2fIWvMNwGscoCaikPB3-Q:1602727289705&amp;q=The+golden+age+of+Islam+Maurice+Lombard&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAI1TPWgTURy_izY2Ly00VwQJDmcGjUW9j9xdki4tSIdCS6HNoC7h7t1Xmnf3...

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Ages-Renaissance-History-Europe/dp/184533163X

انا اتكلم عن اهل الساحل. انصحك تنظر لكتاب ابناء سندباد واحداثة. يمكن يصح كلامك ان حضر الحجاز اقرب لمصر من قرب الحضارمة للخليج ولكن مسقط وصحار اقرب. اصلاً في اسر مشتركة بيننا.

It was shit. It's still shit. What else.

Personally, as an Iraqi, I don't appreciate this question.

There are so many documentaries, ethnographies, interviews, books, youtube videos that will answer this question for you. Instead of having Iraqis have to recount such a trauma that is still ongoing.

I recommend reading Zahra Ali's Women &amp; Gender in Iraq as a start. Or Ahmed Al-Basheer's videos.

> I’m sorry but you do know the Arab slave trade was far larger and lasted for far longer than American slave trade ever did, right?

This is a total bullshit lie. Open any history book. I recommend Europe and the Islamic World by John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens. The term 'Arab slave trade' is a modern propaganda talking point since it wasn't a slave trade directed by Arabs. Non-Arabs fully participated in it. And it was not 'far larger and lasted for longer' than the European slave trade since the European slave trade was much more active throughout the entire Islamic period. European cities like Genoa, Venice, and Verdun were the main slave trading hubs and actively sold slaves to Islamic lands. What you are doing by propagating this lie about 'lasting longer' is to compare slaver in the Middle East only with the Atlantic slave trade. This is a historically illiterate imbecile argument. There was an active slave trade before Islam, and it continued after Islam. The European slave trade didn't begin with the Atlantic slave trade - the Romans, Byzantines, Greeks, Celts, all practiced slavery.

And on top of that, no objective historically literate person would ever compare the ancient and medieval form of slavery, whether in Europe or in MENA, where slaves had some rights and could be adopted into the family or purchase their own freedom, with the chattel slavery of America. There is nothing as brutal as that in the ancient world. American slavery was the industrialization of the slave trade which equalled in numbers within 300 years all the slaves traded in the middle east for 2000 years.

I came across it on Amazon.

When Google Play Music was only available in the US, I tried the following to use it on my phone:

1. Install TunnelBear, or another VPN.
2. Download the Google Play Music .apk from internet. (Not from Google Play).
3. Install and open Google Play Music. The app is now activated.
4. Disable your VPN.

It turned out that the app had to be activated only once from a US IP address. Once activated, you could use the app anywhere you like. I imagine the same applies to Google Play Books. Though Google might have blocked VPNs, it worked two years ago.

Well, the internet censorship isn't pervasive enough to be very troubling day-to-day. Things like porn sites, /r/sex, /r/gonewild, opposition political sites, autogenerated social media newspapers, blogs and some bizarre shit like cooking sites on how to make oreo cakes are blocked. Hotspot Shield is the most popular VPN here, for the teenager who needs his porn fix regardless of how slow the internet already is.

I was viciously opposed to censorship when it was introduced, but I mellowed down a bit now on the issue and focus more on the surveillance systems. There's at least 2 different surveillance systems in Bahrain, FinSpy and Trovicor, that were verified to be operating in Bahrain as well as strong evidence of a deep packet surveillance system used by the CIO (our mukhabarat) called Blue Coat that monitors the whole country's internet. If you're in the Gulf, expect that all your personal digital communication is intercepted and read every morning with coffee by the mukhabarat.

To be honest with you, I don’t think anyone even knows or cares about it. In qatar, the most visited place is Avenues Mall, which has a Venetian theme with a canal running through the interior. There’s no end in site to the mall building, and locals want enormous villas on enormous plots and can afford it. The attitude, at least it seems to me, is that newer is always better. Big shiny Starbucks.

There’s an attempt in Qatar to create a new part of town that’s inspired by traditional architecture. The project is called Msheireb, and it aims to get locals to move back into downtown Doha. It’s by a British firm, but it feels too corporate to be genuinely traditional in any sense.

In kuwait, I feel that locals now view the detached villa typology, where the villa sits in the centre of the plot with a front lawn and backyard, as traditional. It reminds them of the 60s and 70s. There isn’t a single part of town that could be called authentic or traditional. Souq Mubarakiya was rebuilt in the 1960s and old Kuwait City was masterplanned by Peter and Alison Smithson also in the 60s.

There are a few great black and white photos in Kuwait Transformed of Kuwait Town before its demolition that are very reminiscent of old Tunis, or this photo of Ghadames

The company involved in kuwait’s larger masterplan, Minoprio, Spencely, Macfarlane, had never designed anything outside of britain when they were commissioned. It’s a tragedy.

لغة هيغل شائكة وعرة ولا شك : تشبه قراءته تعلُّم لغة جديدة لها مفرداتها وتراكيبها وكليشيهاتها الخاصة. ولكنّك قد ذقت اثار هذه اللغة عند ماركس وججيك ولاكان فلن يصعب تعلّمها عليك بقدر ما يصعب على البعض. أنصحك بالبدء بظاهريات الروح لأنها، في رأيي، أسهل بكثير وأهم من علم المنطق. ثمة كتابان سيساعدانك كثيرا في ذلك : مثالية هيغل لروبرت بيبين^1 واجتماعية العقل لتيري بينكارد^2 . لو شرعتُ في قراءة الظاهريات دونما هذين الكتابين لما فهمت منها شيئا : فتؤطر "مثالية هيغل" مشروع هيغل الفكري ويفسّره بناء على سياقه الفلسفي وقد قلّب هذا الكتاب دراسات هغيل رأسا على عقب حين صدر في التسعينيات. أما اجتماعية العقل فهي عبارة عن تفسير للظاهريات، يتناول كل فصل منه فصلا من الظاهريات. أنا شخصيا قرأت مثالية هيغل بأكملها ثم تطرقت إلى الظاهريات وكنت أقرأ الفصل في بينكارد قبل أن أقرأ الفصل المطابق من الظاهريات

بالتوفيق والنجاح إن شاء الله :D

^1 Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness

^2 Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason

I'm actually of the school of thought that most aesthetic opinions can be quantified by an expert in the field. A great example of this that I'd just love to see applied to the Quran is Shakespeare's Wordcraft.

I read it years ago and it's fabulous. It reads more like a dictionary of technical terms with examples of how Shakespeare used them. Thinks like suffixes, prefixes, front clipping, end clipping, amplification, repeated consonants, repeated vowels, reverberations, sense shifting, negation, etc etc. He even shows examples from famous speeches and novels.

I've never come across a purely technical example of the Quran's wordcraft like this, but there are similar works from a rhetorical perspective, like Mustansir Mir's famous Coherence In the Quran as well as Logic, Rhetoric, and Legal Reasoning In the Quran by Rosalind Gwynne. Both great books.

I have my problems with Islam, in both its tenets and rituals, but certainly one thing I've never been able to shake is the sense of some mammoth genius lurking in the Quran. Every time I read about something in it and understand it, I discover another layer like an onion.

I have no doubt in my mind that all these people waving it away as simple poetry, put no more effort into reading it than whilst reading Harry Potter on the shitter.

I personally didn't get this paper at all. I'm not even sure what the point of it was, a full blown analysis of Edward Said's psychology based on two excerpts? I can't really find the energy to be interested in what he thought about Arabic music on a personal level.

Anyway besides my disappointment with the paper, I only wanted to plug Marwan Kraidy's great Reality Tv and Arab Politics. Read it a few years ago during my master's.

U/fylow nominated an interesting paper like a month ago.

When are we discussing this?

I didn't really find it useful at all... I was hoping it would be along the lines of Marwan Kreidy's fantastic book Reality Television and Arab Politics

I am disappoint

> Let's say that if the probability is less that 33% it's a miracle. Take 0.99n < 0.33, and you find that the number of 'miracles' you need is 111! So Muhammad needs at least 111 of these miracles for a miracle.

Again, the importance of the example 'day' is that there are 3 interrelated concepts: 'day', 'days' and 'month'. So you should be putting in: Pr(Finding a word that can somehow be somehow related to scientific concept in a book the size of the Quran) * Pr(Finding another related word that can somehow be related to a scientific concept in a book) * Pr(Finding a third related word that can somehow be related), etc.

And besides that, there are others that I haven't verified for myself. One I did verify was shaytaan in singular and plural being repeated 88 times, and mala'ika in singular and plural being repeated 88 times. This is related conceptually again with dunya and akhera being repeated the same number of times. There are dozens more claims that i just haven't checked for myself to corroborate, although I have found many claims that I proved to be incorrect.

But either way - I never stated these were miracles. I think I've been very fair in saying that these are not conclusive evidence of anything, but they are interesting and thought-provoking, and there is a lot of interesting and thought-provoking aspects to the Quran.

My own personal interest is in the rhetoric of the Quran and its logical exposition. This book, Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments is the one that got me interested in that side of the book.

Non-mobile: this book

^That's ^why ^I'm ^here, ^I ^don't ^judge ^you. ^PM ^/u/xl0 ^if ^I'm ^causing ^any ^trouble. ^WUT?

إستدللت ذلك من تقليصك لدور تحرر المرأة في تقدم الشعوب. لا توجد شعوب متقدمة دور المرأة فيها ليس متقدم. والشعوب الغير المتقدمة التي تعرف مساواة إلى حد كبير بين الجنسين تقوم بطور اللحاق المتسارع بركب الشعوب الأحسن حالا

الحالة العربية المنحطة من اسبابها الرئيسية إنحطاط دور نسائها في المجتمع.

علماء الإجتماع والديمغرافيا التاريخية والتاريخ عامة يجمعون على أن تعلم المرأة ينذر بثورة معرفية وثورة في النجاعة الإقتصادية في المجتمعات التي تحدث فيها مثل هذه الظاهرة بالتوازي وبالتلاحق.

وهم يقرون أيضا بانه إذا بلغ تعليم المرأة نسبة معينة من المجتمع فإنه يتسبب في تقلص في نسبة الزواج بين الأقارب (خاصية "إسلامية" لكنها متأصلة ومتمركزة في المشرق العربي أساسا عدا مصر التي تعرف هذه النسب بصفة أقل حدة)، فالإنفتاح العائلي فالانفتاح الفكري

ويقرون موازاةً لذلك بانه يتم إستعمال كبير لوسائل منع الحمل، ومن ثم انخفاض مهول في معدل الخصوبة، فقلب تدريجي لموازين القيم في المجتمع فتقلبات سياسية كبرى التي تتسبب في مراحل انتقالية (تطول وتقصر وتكون سلمية أحيانا ودموية أخرى) ومن ثم إلى نظام ديمقراطي ناضج

وللمزيد من الفائدة كتاب لعالمي الأنثروبولوجيا والديمغرافيا "يوسف كورباج" و"إمانويل تود" بالفرنسية لقاء الحضارات عن هذا الذي اوردته وغيره (دحض نظرية صراع الحضارات علميا و إحصائيا) في العالم الاسلامي والعربي خاصة

Last year we announced release of "Alef: Learn Arabic for Kids" on Android, and a lot of you had asked us to keep them in the loop when the iOS version gets released. Today we're doing just that!

What's unique about the app is that you can choose to teach your kids Arabic in different dialects: Classical Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, Palestinian Arabic and Syrian Arabic. The app is aimed at kids who are at least a year old.

Let us know what you think of the app, and please share the app with your friends and family.

Link to iOS App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alef-learn-arabic-for-kids/id1172136601

Link to Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alef.learn.arabicforkids

>Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free. Duolingo is one of the best English language apps today and highly recommended for English beginners

There was an app by a Lebanese dude that reached 500k downloads posted here a few days ago

Edit: here it is:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pou/id575154654?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.pou.app&amp;hl=en

Haha, I was being a dick. Don't mind me :)

In all seriousness though, SwiftKey keyboard is your go-to-app (for Apple & Android) if you want smooth functionality between different languages. The Arabic keyboard is just a swipe of the space bar away and the predict function is pretty decent as well so it makes being lazier even easier than before.