Archive for May, 2020
Letter of the Week (ص) Sad Posted by yasmine on May 6, 2020
Moving on to our fourteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ص), we will look at various words and phrases beginning with (ص) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter ص. Initial صـ, as in the word “صابون” meaning “soap”. Medial ـصـ , as in the…
Oman عُمان: through my eyes (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 4, 2020
As an Arab, Oman عُمَان was not a country that I knew or heard much about as is the case with the rest of the Gulf countries. It wasn’t until 2013 when I had the chance to go there when I was invited by a family member who used to live there temporarily. In this…
Locked down together during Ramadan Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 1, 2020
From the beginning of Ramadan, I’ve been following a comic show on YouTube called كملت معي Kimle-t ma-ʕi and I would like to share with you its theme song or الشارة iš-šaarah as it’s called in Syrian Arabic (the variety used in the show). The show’s theme song can give you the gist of what…