I meant to post this last week, but the daily rain shower means that we’ve been having problems with both electricity and internet. Last Friday we lost power for about 24 hours because the transformer was shorted out. I’m not complaining too much though. While everywhere else in the Middle East is baking in the [...]
My love for Arabic literature في بداية دراسة اللغة العربية كان هدفي تعلم أُسُس اللغة العربية والتواصل مع الناس، ولذلك درست الكتابة والقراءة بالفصحى في المعهد وأَلِفتُ اللهجة الصنعانية من الجلوس مع النساء بين القات والدخان وترويج الأخبار الطازجة والإشاعات الساخنة. بعد سنة من دراسة موضوعات الحياة اليومية، وقِصَص جُحا، وحكايات الحيوانات التي تتفلسف وتتآمر، [...]
Yemen seems to be in the news on a daily basis these days. If it’s not the Huthis in the North, it’s the separatists in the South. If it’s it not Al Qaeda in Marib, it’s some tribesmen kidnapping tourists. On top of all that, a severe water shortage and a whole nation addicted to [...]
Building Disaster – A Tale of Three Windows
I painted this today from an old photo I found in the Aramco World 2010 Calendar.
My friend Zainab was learning how to paint and got me interested. For three afternoons, we sat on my balcony and attempted to paint the gorgeous view in front of us. Neither of us knew how to paint, so it was like blind leading the blind. I had a pretty good idea of what I [...]
This is a short poem written by my friend Amani in what she called “free style.”
على هامة الكلمات الشامخة ….. تأتي كلماتي.
و على ذروة الحروف الرنّانة ……………تختال حروفي.
وفوق أمواج القائد المتلاطمة …….تتناغم أشعاري.
وبين حروب المعاني الضارية…….سَمَتْ دلالاتي.
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Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic is the language of the Quran, Hadith, and classical literature. It shares the same grammar with its direct descendant Modern Standard Arabic, but differs from it in style and word choices. Most non-Muslim Arabic students concentrate on Media Arabic, modern literature, or dialects after they reach an advanced level, while [...]
I was trying to print out an ebook today, but the book had over 30 chapters with each chapter in a separate text file named chapter##.txt. I didn't want to print all the files separately and renumber the pages each time, so I used some stupid DOS tricks to combine them into one text file, [...]
I was asked the following questions: IMHO, there are more than enough websites out there that explain the 10 verb forms and the most common broken plurals. I believe it would be more helpful if you wrote about topics for intermediate learners that are usually not well explained in traditional textbooks such as resolving the [...]
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