al-ʻarabiyyah

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Freedom- Hurriya حُرّيّةِ

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If you are a UK citizen, and want the government to recognise the state of Palestine, please lend your support to this petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300450

Petition: Call for the UK government to formally recognise the State of Palestine

The UK government should formally recognise the State of Palestine based on 1967 lines with Jerusalem as a shared capital. To enable this, t

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Vocabulary from poetry

Animals mentioned in The Strangers Bed collection of poetry, by Mahmoud Darwish.

Bee - نحلة naHla

Bird -طائر Taa'ir

Bull - ثور thur

Butterfly - فراشة farasha

Cat - قط qiT

Dove - يمامة yamameh

Doe - ظبية zabyeh

Fox - ثعلب tha3lab

Gazelle - غزل ghazal

Goat - ماعز maa3z

Horse - حصان Hisan

Mare - فرس fors

Partridge - حجل Hajal

Pigeon - حمامة Hamameh

Stag - أيل ayel

Swallow - سنونو sanunu

Wolf - ذئب th'ib

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aflamuna // أفلامنا

Stream the best of Arab cinema for free! aflamuna is an inependent platform offering the best independent and contemporary Arab films for li

Mar7aba

This website is streaming a selection of Arab cinema, which changes weekly, for free.

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“Even if you are not with me, the memories of you are with me. My heart sees you, even if you are made vanished from my vision. The eye sees who it loves but will end up losing the sight of them. But the one who sees with their heart, will never lose the sight (of the people they love).”

Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker, Abu Fahr, Egyptian writer, poet, journalist and scholar of the Arabic language.

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من ألف ليلة وليلة

Tell who so has sorrow that sorrow won’t last like joy has no morrow so sorrows will go past

One Thousand and One Nights

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“You live a new life for every language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.”

— Czech proverb

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Vocabulary from poetry

Some vocabulary from Nizar Qabbanis poem 'Damascus What Are You Doing To Me'.

Anise - Yansoon يانسون

Berry - Toot توت

Cinnamon - Karfeh قرفة

Cloves - Kurunful قرنفل

Dahlia - Dalya أضاليا

Damascene rose - Warda dimashqiyah وردة دمشقية

Jasmine - Yasmeen ياسمين

Liquorice - Soos سوس

Narcissus - Narjes نرجس

Oil - Zeyt زيت

Peach - Khouk خوخ

Pomegranate - Ruman رمان

Sesame - Samsamea سمسمية

Tarragon - Tarkhoun طرخون

Thyme - Za3tar زعتر

Vanilla - Vanilia فانيلي

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Dialect/MSA

Marhaba! مرحباً

I hope to start posting here more regularly and often in the new year ان شاء الله

But I’d like to ask, would you prefer dialect language, or Modern Standard Arabic?

Please let me know :)

شكراً

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The dialect would be levantine (Syria/Palestine/Lebanon/Jordan)

Most specifically, Syrian.

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عيد ميلاد مجيد

Eid milad majid

Merry Christmas!

(wobbling camera, wriggling paper, bit of a mess)

[muhammadsmiry]

“يمكنك إتقان كل لغة، ولكن إذا كنت لا تفهم صمت أحدهم، فقد خسرت الكثير. You can master every language, but if you can’t understand someone’s silence, then you’ve missed a lot.”

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Mnih

منيح

e.g Ana mnih- I am fine Bahki ‘arabi mnih- I speak Arabic well *Levantine dialects*

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كلَّما قبلتك  بَعد طُول إِفتراق أشعُر أنّني  أضَع رِسالة حُب مُستعجلة ْفِي علبة بَريد حمراء. Every time I kiss you After a long separation I feel I am putting a hurried love letter In a red mailbox.

Nizar Qabbani. (via m7madsmiry)

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Love each other.

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I forgot the sorrow by longing for a better tomorrow.

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Dua (prayers) to be said before and after fasting

🙏🏻☪️🕌

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Monument to Stranger and Refugees, by Nigerian-American artist Olu Oguibe. Currently in Kassel, Germany. The quote, translated in four languages (English, German, Arabic and Turkish) is from the Gospel of Matthew - 25:35.