@AlexanderMKey

philologist

 Palo Alto, CA
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Joined November 2012
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اشتهر ابن تيمية بإنكاره لوقوع #المجاز في اللغة، بيد أن النظرة الفاحصة لآرائه في الموضوع تكشف عن تبصّر فلسفي في مقاربته لثنائية #الحقيقة_والمجاز، التي هي أعمق مما يبدو من النظرة السطحية لمعارضيه في سوء تصورهم لرأيه على أنه مجرد إنكار تعسفي لوقوع المجاز youtu.be/ud0ewwz0j74
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Elias Muhanna@QifaNabki14 Sep 2022
This is how far Diyab had to travel in order to write this book, but all you have to do is click here to get a copy: amazon.com/Book-Travels-Libr…
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Etel Adnan's 1977 covers for Shu'un Filistiniyya (Palestinian Affairs), the journal of the PLO Research Center in Beirut (edited at that time by Mahmoud Darwish and Elias Khoury).
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I was translating these lines of al-Khansa when I heard about Etel. Let them be for her. Let it be too much.
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Yasmine Seale@yasmineseale8 Nov 2021
"It is only European history & romantic nationalism & borders & the post-Westphalian state that creates the assumption that there is failure in translation. That when you take something from one country to another, you lose some essence." arablit.org/2021/11/08/alexa…
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Free Nazanin@FreeNazanin6 Nov 2021
Day 14 #FreeNazanin
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رحل أمس ياروسلاف ستيتكيفيتش ومدرسة ستتكيفيتش عائلة متى دخلتها ستجد لك مكاناً تعود إليه دوما. كلما تسنّى لهما، يجمع سوزان وياروسلاف أبناءهما حول طاولة، يزودانك بذخر من المثابرة والولاء في سعيك نحو القصيدة، وقصيدتهما ستظلّ تؤلف بيننا، مهما افترق نسب أو اختلف ماء الوصال.
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Belated Antiquity@afzaque2 May 2021
Types of Islamic Studies papers! It had to happen!
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ArabLit Quarterly pays its writers. Submit to this upcoming issue about football ⚽️ because people really like ⚽️ (Psst is there gonna be a Mo Salah pop art piece on the color like the ALQ team did with Oum Kulthoum for their music issue?)
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social@arablit26 Mar 2021
Submissions are open (now for the first, in a few days for the second): arablit.submittable.com/subm…
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#مريد_البرغوثي رحمك الله وها أنت الآن تسير إلى رضوى رحمهما الله جميعا وأحسن الله عزاء ابنهما تميم البرغوثي
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Arab(ic) and Palestinian literature has just lost one of its icons. #Mourid_Barghouti is no more.
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Dear @HopeMarsMission, congratulations on arriving at Mars! In the words of the poet Al Mutanabbi: إذا غامَرْتَ في شَرَفٍ مَرُومِ فَلا تَقنَعْ بما دونَ النّجومِ (If you ventured in pursuit of glory, don’t be satisfied with less than the stars.)
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Mariah Carey
@MariahCarey8 Feb 2021
Happy Colin Kaepernick Appreciation Day!
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UptownBerber@HishamAidi26 Jan 2021
I can’t help but notice that the 10-year “Arab Spring” panels are largely focusing on the Mideast, neglecting the Maghreb & Sudan I'm re-upping a piece from last year on the "Afro-Arab periphery" and the new identity movements: pomeps.org/national-identity… pomeps.org/national-identity…

National Identity in the Afro-Arab Periphery: Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (anti)Racism in Morocco -...

Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University In the last decade, Morocco and Algeria have attempted a “pivot” to Africa. The “infitah to Africa,” as it’s called in the local press, is driven by multiple factor...

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Join us Wednesday, February 3 from 12 – 1 p.m. for "Revolt Against the Sun," a talk with @UmmHafi on her translations of Nazik al-Mala’ika's poetry. Registration required: bit.ly/39rq4xD
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Elias Muhanna@QifaNabki8 Jan 2021
the postal horses brought by this thumping tome about the history of information (@PrincetonUPress ). i did the bit about medieval Islam: dictionaries, encyclopedias, orality, abrogation, paper, library catalogues, etc. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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rat king 🐀
@MikeIsaac18 Dec 2020
There is an enormous demonstration going on at @Stanford Hospital right now carried out by staff, who are protesting the decision by higher ups to give vaccines to some administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients INSTEAD of frontline workers.
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Ever wanted to figure out who is behind Shamela, possibly the greatest Islamic studies resource nobody dares to cite? My colleague Peter Verkinderen took a deep dive and wrote a blog about it: kitab-project.org/2020/12/03…
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In memory of Raed Fares, the satirist Syria needed, by @AmalHanano for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/essays/revol…

Revolutionary Wit

No one escaped Raed Fares’ brutal criticism: U.S. presidents, Russia, Iran, the United Nations – everyone who was witnessing the Syrian war and doing nothing to stop it.

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Elias Muhanna@QifaNabki20 Oct 2020
Attention to readers curious about the adventures of a young Syrian man in the 18th century, making his way across France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, and beyond.
Library of Arabic Literature@LibraryArabLit20 Oct 2020
📢 Announcing our Spring 2021 books! 🧵 THE BOOK OF TRAVELS is a memoir by Ḥannā Diyāb, best known for his contributions to Galland's 1001 Nights. Edited by Johannes Stephan, translated by @QifaNabki, foreword by @yasmineseale, afterword by P.L. Horta. libraryofarabicliterature.or…
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