Jack of all trades, master of none. Also a photographer.
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Fadi BouKaram retweeted
Giselle Khoury @gizou10 was an exceptional human being, one of the best journalists and interviewers, she was above all a friend. With profound sadness, I was honored to write her obituary in @FT I hope I did her justice. Lebanon+ Arab world will miss her
ft.com/content/43b80164-b1f7…
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
A timely discussion with the great @CedrusK
With the limited tools we share in communication & expression, we will discuss language and persuasion in times of heightened emotion, the difficulty in finding pragmatism when offering narrative against complexity, and the wider reality of where we are in this time of political uncertainty.
Join us on Instagram Live on Monday, 23 October from 9-10pm Beirut time / 7-8pm Dublin time
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
لمحة: اللغة العربية حقٌّ للجميع. التنمر غير مقبول.
#جامعة_زايد
#مركز_زاي_لبحوث_اللغة_العربية
#اللغة_العربية
Even if the article wasn’t AI-generated, and even if the alleged writer was real, the piece shouldn’t have been so easily published. This is the same mindset that led to the ‘Sokal Squared’ scandal in the US (but at least this isn’t a peer-reviewed paper) – at Saint Saviour, Bailiwick of Jersey
The editor of the Irish TImes has apologised for what he described as a "breach of trust" between the newspaper and its readers and said it needs to make its pre-publication procedures more robust rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/051…
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
Mars most probably comes from Italian. Very common for Italian words to enter Ottoman Turkish. See below source:
google.com/books/edition/Dit…
The mostly-persian origin (with a bit of turkish) to reading dice digits in backgammon in some arabic dialects. – at Dublin City, Ireland
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
New fragment of the Book of Revelation in Arabic translation, a rare find in a Jewish Geniza:
...اصوات رعد وسبع مصابيح...
... peals of thunder and seven lamps...
...السبعة ارواح الله...
...the seven spirits of God...
geniza.princeton.edu/en/docu…
ALT scrap of a medieval manuscript covered with elegant Arabic handwriting
ALT scrap of a medieval manuscript covered with elegant Arabic handwriting
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
Who knew the word for artichoke had such a mixed heritage? In this episode, @cedrusk gets to the heart of artichoke’s Arabic, Spanish & Italian etymology.
#artichoke #etymology #words #linguistics
Full conversation: youtu.be/p4l0SrXrl0U
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
We can't wait for our episode with @cedrusk ! Here is a small taste: why are some languages right to left, and others left to right? Episode goes live Wednesday at 9AM Beirut time on YouTube and all podcast apps.
#language #linguistics
Ok then… – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
The Defence Forces have confirmed that four more Russian vessels, including a warship, have been observed off the Irish coast rte.ie/news/2023/0507/138124…
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
The word for orange in Amharic is birtukan which comes from the Arabic word for Portugal (which brought the fruit to the region in the 1500s)
But the word for Portugal in Amharic is Porichugali, which seems to have come from English or Portuguese.
🤔
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
Two great episodes this week:
MONDAY: Political History in Sudan with Aida Abbashar ( @aidastweetss )
WEDNESDAY: Arabic Etymology & Language Nerdiness with Fadi BouKaram (@cedrusk)
Subscribe here: youtube.com/@afikra/videos
#podcast #afikra #sudan #arabic
On the #etymology of the words for persimmons in different languages.
(Kaki, kharma, plaquemine, khuramlu..) – at Dublin City, Ireland
The levantine arabic etymologies for the loquat (akideneh/اكيدنيا or eskidenya/اسكيدنيا) and the greengage plum (janerik/جنارك)
Expressions for #Easter in #Arabic, with cognates in #aramaic and #hebrew. And an equivalence in #malti
#الفصح_المجيد #العيد_الكبير #عيد_الكبير #اللغة_العربية
#lgħidilkbir #ܦܨܚܐܒܪܝܟܐ #korban #قربان – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
Four years since one of the most talked-about single frames in sitcom history!
The Irish for pause button is cnaipe sosa.
From (irish) cill to small rooms to cells to phones, the way a word drifts and evolves from one language to another and never ceases to be amazing for me.
Fadi BouKaram retweeted
If you feel the need to deceive people about how you created your 'photography', its probably going to come back and bite you in the ass at some stage!
Popular Instagram Photographer Revealed as AI Fraud petapixel.com/2023/02/21/pop…
