{"id":6395,"date":"2012-10-13T04:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2014-07-11T18:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:56:40","slug":"an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction \u0645\u064f\u0642\u064e\u062f\u0651\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0629"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRecord it, I am an Arab and my identity card number is 50,000\u201d, (\u0633\u064e\u062c\u0650\u0651\u0644 \u0623\u0646\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0648\u0631\u064e\u0642\u0650\u0645 \u0628\u0637\u0627\u0642\u064e\u062a\u064a \u062e\u064e\u0645\u0633\u0648\u0646 \u0623\u064e\u0644\u0641<\/strong>) says the great Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish (\u0645\u062d\u0645\u0648\u062f \u062f\u064e\u0631\u0648\u064a\u0634)<\/strong> in his famous poem Record it, I am an Arab. And I say to you too: record this, I am an Arab.<\/p>\n

In my blog posts you will be reading and learning a lot more about Mahmoud Darwish, but more and much more about me, my Arab origin (\u0623\u064e\u0635\u0650\u0644)<\/strong> , my passion (\u0634\u064e\u063a\u064e\u0641)<\/strong> for my language and my culture. Born as an American to two originally Arab parents, I have been raised and have spent most of my life in Beirut, Lebanon. I have lived my good times and my bad times in Beirut. I was but a young child when I had to learn to share my toys and food with others as we hid from bombs and fighting during the Lebanese Civil War (\u0627\u0644\u062d\u064e\u0631\u0650\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0647\u0644\u064a\u0651\u064e\u0629<\/strong>) . In my later teenage years (\u0639\u064f\u0645\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u0631\u0627\u0647\u064e\u0642\u064e\u0629<\/strong>), I learned how to protest (\u0623\u062a\u0638\u0627\u0647\u064e\u0631)<\/strong>, participate in (\u0623\u064f\u0634\u0627\u0631\u0650\u0643)<\/strong> and challenge (\u0623\u062a\u064e\u062d\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0649)<\/strong> the conflicted political situation in Lebanon and the region as a whole. I later witnessed and had my share of the suffering and destruction (\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0645\u0627\u0631)<\/strong> brought about by Lebanese-Israeli wars. But Beirut also taught me other things; it taught me the value of family and friends, the importance of my education that I earned with flying colors, and it also taught me how to love and share my life with my now-wife and long-time best friend. In recent years however, I started yearning for my other home, the US, and for a life in this vast (\u0634\u0627\u0633\u0650\u0639<\/strong>) and inviting country. Living the life that I did in Lebanon and growing up in that politicized (\u0645\u064f\u0633\u064e\u064a\u0651\u064e\u0633)<\/strong> environment, my passion for the workings of politics, society and culture led me to a career in political science (\u0627\u0644\u0639\u064f\u0644\u0648\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0651\u0650\u064a\u0627\u0633\u064a\u064e\u0651\u0629)<\/strong>. And so I am here today, living in Boston and working to earn my PhD in Politics.<\/p>\n

Relocating to Boston about two years ago, I feel my connection to Arabic as both a language and culture is severing and so it is with you, my readers, and through you that I wish to reestablish this connection by creating one for you. My blog posts will range from discussions about art (\u0627\u0644\u0641\u064e\u0646\u0651<\/strong>) , poetry (\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0651\u0650\u0639\u0650\u0631<\/strong>) , music (\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0633\u064a\u0642\u0649<\/strong>)and literature (\u0627\u0644\u0623\u062f\u064e\u0628)<\/strong> , to recipes (\u0648\u064e\u0635\u0652\u0641\u0627\u062a<\/strong>) , specific Arab celebrations (\u0623\u064e\u0639\u0652\u064a\u0627\u062f<\/strong>) . You will sense my academic and political twist in a lot of my contributions because the political constitutes who I am and will therefore configure in much of what I write especially about my region. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

\u201cRecord it, I am an Arab and my identity card number is 50,000\u201d, (\u0633\u064e\u062c\u0650\u0651\u0644 \u0623\u0646\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0648\u0631\u064e\u0642\u0650\u0645 \u0628\u0637\u0627\u0642\u064e\u062a\u064a \u062e\u064e\u0645\u0633\u0648\u0646 \u0623\u064e\u0644\u0641) says the great Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish (\u0645\u062d\u0645\u0648\u062f \u062f\u064e\u0631\u0648\u064a\u0634) in his famous poem Record it, I am an Arab. And I say to you too: record this, I am an Arab. In my blog posts…<\/p>\n

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