Archive for August, 2020
The story behind this Egyptian Proverb Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 7, 2020
In today’s post, we’re going to learn a new Arabic proverb مثل (شعبي) عربي and study its use and the story behind it. >> The proverb, which is in Egyptian Arabic, is as follows: ماتروحش تبيع المية في حارة السقّايين Ma TruH-š Tbeeʕ il-mayya fi Hart is-sa2ayeen *Literal meaning المعنى الحرفي Don’t sell…
Letter of the Week (و) wow Posted by yasmine on Aug 5, 2020
Moving on to our twenty seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (و), we will look at various words beginning with (و) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter و. Initial و, as in the word “واحِد” meaning “one”. Medial ـو , as in the word…
Hajj Pilgrimage “الحج” amid pandemic Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 3, 2020
Last Friday, Muslims around the world celebrated Eid Al-Adha عيد الأضحى – an islamic holiday that marks the end of Hajj season موسم الحج. It was not only the celebration of Eid was affected by the CoronaVirus pandemic, but Hajj was too. Hajj pilgrimage, which is one the pillars of Islam أركان الإسلام and a journey that…