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The 7 Crack Commandments Of Learning Arabic

By Will Ward Cairo, Egypt — 11pm — About 9 years ago “3ayz aru7 el-mat3m” I repeated to the cab driver,

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Lughat ash-shabab: Fear and loathing at AUC

I’m adding my belated two cents to the discussion here, here, and here on Arabic language instruction that was triggered

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Almasry Alyoum rewrites NYT sectarianism piece

I skimmed the NYT article yesterday by Michael Slackman on rising sectarian tensions in Egypt and didn’t think much of

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English translation of draft Egyptian broadcast law

Someone intrepid over at Arab Media & Society has put up an English translation of the Egyptian draft broadcast law

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Egypt and Iran: Diplomacy and documentary

For the last few months, we’ve been hearing about an imminent reconciliation between Cairo and Tehran. Ahmadinejad and Mubarak had

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Blackouts in Iran

It was hard to miss the dramatic picture and headline screaming “Blackouts becoming longer” in Etemaad-e Melli. It alleges the

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Wikimania 2008

About a week ago I learned that Wikipedia holds an annual conference called “Wikimania,” and that I would be going

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R.I.P. Cairo Poker

A good deal of my social life here in Cairo has revolved around a weekly poker night started several months

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