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Who’s Who on Lebanon’s Arabic TV Channels Posted by on May 27, 2012

The Lebanese TV channels scene is almost as diverse as the Lebanese society itself. But seldom do the programs of these channels reflect the deep cultural and intellectual wealth of the country—Call that the “new reality” of TV channels in Lebanon, or maybe just Lebanon‘s semi-official “Reality TV” channels. Today’s post will explore the reasons…

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Quick Intro to “Classy Insults” in Classical Arabic Posted by on Mar 13, 2012

!لا تَفْجَعُـــــــــــــوا يا أَصْدِقَــــــــــائي (Don’t panic, my friends!) Today’s post is not yet another vulgar compilation of الكلام الفاحش (profanities) such as the ones you can often run into on the Web in almost any language… Not at all. What you will find here is a quick intro to rather “classier” examples and paradigms of how insults…

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Top 50+ English Words—of Arabic Origin! Posted by on Feb 21, 2012

Did you know that words like Adobe and Safari  are actually Arabic?  Of course, you already knew of the existence of so-called “loanwords” in English, meaning words which are originally French, German, Spanish, etc. But were you actually aware that several of them also come from ARABIC?  IN SCIENCE AND MATH: ALCHEMY and CHEMISTRY (الكيميـــــــــاء.) ALCOHOL (الكُحُـــــــــول.)  ALGEBRA…

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