hear me out. these are just arabic conjugational prefixes (t-, y-) added to french verbs 😎

lets get some excerpts!

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any way to explain the difference between idir (ادير) and yiddir (يدّر)? btw the latter also a not uncommon tribal name among arab libyans

would love Lost Places 🤓

goals

i am an expert cryptographer of the symmetric persuasion

for those who missed it, i am an "international neuropsychologist", a winner of the "scientist award in engineering, science, and medicine", a "bioprinter", and an expert in south korean religion

since my old one went the way of tw*tter, here is a new thread documenting my astonishing breadth of expertise (aka academic spam)

the only solution

now seeing colleagues (tenured professors) using chatgpt instead of their brain for even basic thinking. truly pathetic. what did you become a scholar for, if not to use your brain?

making flyers for talks has turned out to be one of my preferred ways of procrastinating 😆

in a meeting planning for spring term 2028 as if there will even be universities

الله يبارك فيك عزيزي (غير ملاحظة: انا نكره الهندبوكات)

cannot believe i was asked to be on the BOARD of a series of HANDBOOKS 🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏽‍♂️😷😷😷😷😷😷

they suck and arent useful

non-sarcastic observation about libyan arabic: how come in a ḏ/ṯ having dialect, the numbers are often pronounced with t not ṯ (and the speakers never vary ḏ/ṯ of other words)? e.g. someone might say ṯ~timānya but always haḏa, maṯrūda, ṯigīl

what you dont like di ello / di ella?😂

all this time he's been saying سر but meaning خر!!

finally listening to this and highly recommend!

« Il était une fois… » La BD française au service des dictatures - Histoire Au milieu des années 1970, une maison d’édition française se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de nombreux dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne (…)

#BD Dans les années 1970, une maison d'édition se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne reflètent pas toujours la réalité historique... C’est la naissance d’Afrique Biblio Club. Par @kalidousy.bsky.social ⬇️

wait does this mean the old berliner turfantexte books are available too??

US academics be like: my tax dollars shouldn't be used to enrich fascists and destroy the university! only to pay for another country to slaughter people it doesn't like!

jeffvandermeer-pilled enough to have read that as "draden in love" and had to go back and read it more slowly

could you share a link to Gravina?

also whats with the BS spam-lookin email address at the end?

In my latest paper for @arabreforminit.bsky.social I discuss moral policing, social control and other strategies in the face of governance failure by the government of GNU in Libya. www.arab-reform.net/publication/...

Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Understanding the Nakba through Arab Drama – Documentation and Symbolism in al-Taghreba al-Falastinya [Fatima Ahdash is an Assistant Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Previously, Fatima was a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests lie in national…

Saying hello to the world from this platform with a bit of shameless self-promotion. I recently co-wrote a piece on the legal concept of the Nakba as represented in Arab drama that i am very proud of because there is such little wroting that centres Arab pip culture: opiniojuris.org/2024/10/30/f...

We’ve been wanting to do an episode on Arabic for so long, and we finally did it! And with a good friend of mine! Check it out. And thanks, as always, for supporting an indie podcast. 🍟

sayyid hasan really got around and talked to everyone