.... "Do not rest upon your laurels." Malik retorted. "And get out of the way. You're in my light." He rotated the paper, whispering under his breath as he deciphered the faint lines of Arabic script that annotated the drawing. "Queen's...King's Chamber." He stabbed a finger at the house shape. "Here. The Eden fragment surely sleeps within." Altaïr turned away from the window with the ghost...
I am going to be moving to Damascus in August to study Arabic for a year, insha'Allah. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some essential books that I should take with me to help in my studies. I am a complete beginner (though I've already got the alphabet down). I know about the Hans Wehr Dictionary, but other than that are there any books that I will want to have on hand? I'm going to the ...
... WASPy town), which I positively LOVED. I'm studying International Studies and Modern Languages, which is like a blend of politics, history, economics, and international relations, with minors in French and Arabic. Arabic is such a neat language and I'm loving it. While at school I'm heavily involved in international development clubs like Engineers Without Borders (not what it sounds like) and ...
... decided to spoil myself just a little bit. I got me the "Bilingual etymological dictionary of spoken Israeli Arabic and Hebrew", by Abraham Stahl. A very serious book, in two volumes. Here's a little joke from the preface of the book, translated from Iraqi Arabic into Palestinian Arabic, and into English (the last one I did myself). Sane3 il-kaslaan. wa7ad qaal laSana3o: ...
... Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers ...
... Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers ...
... a miserable bastard!” “He promised you….” Robin began, but he was interrupted by a yell in the back garden. Allan leaped up and opened the window. It let in a stream of what they both recognized as Arabic profanities. They each stood to the side to look out, as if they were evading arrows on a parapet, and watched smoke pour out of the open oven, and Djaq throw down a tray full of smoldering ...
... is a Christian Nation." I loathe the fact that our justice system and Department of Homeland Security chooses to ignore these violent scumbags while chasing down everyone who looks vaguely Arabic because they might be Islamic Terrorists. We'll never see these fuckers in Gitmo being waterboarded. I can almost guarantee that. Fucking hypocrites... Terrorism: the systematic use of ...
... like the idea of repurposed dinnerware. I'm not so sure about the pieces with roaches printed on them. Moth designs - big colorful designs on tshirts and other stuff, with a bit of arabic vocabulary printed on it too. Ellembee - More really pretty, elegent printed t-shirts; my favorite was this one . Fisk and Fern - printmaking, illustration and collage. Hero Design Studio - when...
