Native Arabic speakers make mistakes as well. Today we will look at some common ones.
The index-finger is a symbol of Islamists. When a Muslim uses the finger (by raising it), he makes a sign and wants to symbolize the unity of Allah.
LibreOffice - unlike Microsoft Word - does not offer to change the color of Arabic diacritical marks (tashkeel/harakat). But there are two tricks.
Episode #23 of "9273 roots": An interview with Sami Morcos - the man who created a great website that converts any number into Arabic text.
In Arabic, do you say مبنيّ or مبنيّة for "indeclinable"? Well, you can use both: masculine or feminine. Here is why.
9273 roots: 20 questions for the grammarian Antoine Robert el-Dahdah (الدحداح) who put Arabic grammar in charts and tables.
Episode #7 of my series "9273 roots": 20 questions for the man who made learning Arabic dialects easy: Matthew Aldrich from Lingualism.
The vowel on the second root letter of an Arabic verb reveals many things about the character and personality of the verb.
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL); the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL): we need to talk about the "F"-word in these acronyms, writes Dr. Roger Anderson. If Arabic is a "foreign" language, then every time Arab-Americans speak it within their home, they are performing something foreign in every conversation. Hence, the "foreign" has to be abandoned, opines Dr. Anderson in a thought-provoking guest article.
The best Arabic grammar books (nahw and sarf) for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Some recommendations (in English, German, Arabic).
In Islam, there are many names for hell and hellfire. Most of them are found in the Quran. A list.
He started with the infamous orange book about Arabic by Peter F. Abboud. Today Eamonn Gearon makes the Middle East understandable. An interview
It was Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma'dan, or 'Arabs of the marsh', lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. These little-known architectur
Things you may want, but do you need them?
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” ― Golda Meir
Take a look at how different languages are connected to one another with this wonderful illustration by Minna Sundberg.
About The Hummingbird's Sayang by Faith Twardzik FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR comes a luxurious descriptive, decadently dark, and lusciously erotic novel ab
