He gave me a note that he said was, “This is my address in Arabic. You know, just keep it with you. So when you get married you can give it to the cab driver when you come to visit with your wife.” And meanwhile, obviously, it was a note to my kidnappers that I couldn't...
This word is actually quite remarkable because nothing in common human instinct would indicate that there is such a thing as a lower limit on divisibility. Intuition would suggest that you can always divide whatever is left. This is obviously the case with numbers (there is no smallest fraction...
This recent experience of more or less eight months make me say, that I learnt more about translators in these months than in the previous five years and six translator’s conferences before. Below I summarize the typical translators I meet when I try to outsource (all of them I met on a...
Let’s look at few of the methods I recently used to deconstructed Russian and Arabic to determine if I could reach fluency within a 3-month target time period. Both were done in an hour or less of conversation with native speakers sitting next to me on airplanes. Six...
Able:The feeling that one has the skill, knowledge, permission capability, or power to do or accomplish; capable. Abandon:To give up or discontinue all any further interest in something because of discouragement, weariness, distaste; feeling unrestrained, uninhibited; to give up all concern with....
(I should mention in passing that he is not closely related to the great Mahmoud Darwish). I have no Arabic, and so I can’t speak to the wordplay and sonic qualities here the way I can about Gouri’s poem. Instead I’ll start with the title. “Who remembers the Armenians?” is ...
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Instead, though, we went out to a cafe, had some tea and smoked some shisha (hookah) while listening to arabic music and watching arabic music videos on the street in the middle of Amman. The weather was amazing, the culture as awesome and it was the perfect start to our trip in ...
barely do subtraction, division or any problem involving multiple digits. In effect, says Butterworth, he is blind to the underlying meaning of numbers. He can say 4 and 3 as words and recognise the numerals, but lacking a proper number instinct, he has little feeling for what they ...
Indeed, the United States was seeking Iran’s help in taking on the Islamic State. As the nuclear deal negotiations were intensifying ahead of a November 2014 diplomatic deadline, Obama himself secretly wrote to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to say the two countries had a mu...