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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Gets To Know The Neighborhood

Katie Beck | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: France, French Elections 2012, Cote D'Azur, French, French Election, Food, Pardon My French, Arabic, Culture, Travel News

The neighborhood has been in protracted decline: Large family homes have been turned into cheap hotels and apartments. Pizza and kebab shops abound.

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Living Out The Sacred Word

Homayra Ziad | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Jummah, Revelation, Prophet Muhammad, Calligraphy, Arabic, Islam, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Quran, Huffjummah, Religion News

I may pull the Quran down from the topmost shelf, and sit in silent recitation, but if the Quran cannot be read in the movement of my limbs, the angle of my chin, the way I walk, sit and hold someone's hand, it is as if it had never been written at all.

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I'll Remember, Insha'Allah

Daliah Merzaban | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Quran, Islam, Arabic, Destiny, Insha'Allah, Zikr, I'll Remember, Fate, Religion News

The main reason for Muslims to say insha'Allah is to recognise that an event in the future will happen only if God wills it.

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The Birth Of The Bab

Shastri Purushotma | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Baha'i, Israel, Religion, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Haifa, Shiraz, Arabic, Religious Tolerance, Birth-of-the-Bab, Religion News

The Bab in many of his works showed how some of the most seemingly mundane things can be infused with deep spiritual understanding.

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10 Years Later, We Must Do Better

Rabbi Michael M. Cohen | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Decade After 9/11 - Religion, 9/11 First Responders, 9/11 Reflection, Middle East Conflict, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Arabic, Interfaith 9/11 Reflection, Religious Tolerance, 9/11 Attacks, September 11 Anniversary, September 11th, Middle East Peace, Religion News

In many ways the world has changed in 10 years, but in many ways it has not. We simply do not understand the Middle East as well as we should.

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Film On Lebanese Religious Tensions

Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Religion, Lebanon, Video, Caramel, Arabic, Where Do We Go Now, Musicals, Film, Muslim, Movies, Nadine Labaki, Arts News

Actress and director Nadine Labaki has made a career out of her inquiries into Lebanese sociology, culminating in her latest film, Where Do We Go Now?...

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Arab Leaders to Youth: You Cannot Find a Job, but You Can Go to a Concert

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Arab World, Politics, Pop Music, Arabic, Arab Spring, Entertainment, World News

There are real problems that not even the A-list Lebanese singers can address. Leaders should lead by creating jobs, not throwing parties and becoming concert promoters.

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Top 10 Ways to Take Our Country Back From Foreign Words!

Katie Halper | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Haboob, Arabic Words Origin, Arabic Words, Arabic, Arabic English, Arabic Writing, Arabic Language, Comedy News

In solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Arizona who are fighting to keep our language free of foreign influence, I have singled out 10 words of Arabic origin and offered good old fashioned American language names for them.

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What of Persian and the Lingua Franca of the New Century?

Sam Sasan Shoamanesh | Posted 09.06.2011

What of the sway of Persian, or for that matter, any other language in today's world? It is language capable of 'selling' to an increasingly aware world-population that will be triumphant in the 21st century.

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Caged Lion: Explorating Egyptian Identity Pre- & Post-Revolution

Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Art, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Video Art, Freedom, Tradition, Arabic, Identity, Painting, Los Angeles, Art Exhibitions, Culture, Arts News

Since its inception, art history has provided a lens for cultural events and this time Mohamed Abou El Naga’s solo exhibition “The Lion” serves ...

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The Future Depends On What The Meaning of "Was" Was

Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Romance Language, Arab World, Islam, Arabic, Language, Middle East, World News

The Arab world should teach subjects in the language that mirrors the language spoken at home. From creative writing to the sciences, the language of the family should be the language of education.

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Media Live Up to Name as Game Changers in Spreading Arab Revolutions

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Guardian, Al Hayat, Dubai, Aljazeera, Al Arabiya, Bloggers, Twitter, Palestine, Lebanon, Media, Chinese, Facebook, Menassat, Arabic, North Africa, Social Media, Afghanistan and Iraq, Arab, Victor Hugo, Middle East, Internet, Satellite Channels, Revolutions, Qatar, Egypt Social Media, Media News

Any invasion of armies today is being met with an equally hard-hitting invasion of media to cover unfolding events -- often to the consternation of those who seek to suppress people.

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Koran By Heart on Easter Sunday

Hoda Osman | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Koran, Islam, Barker, Recitation, Codumentary, Rifdha, Nabiollah, Film, Competition, Heart, Tribeca Film Festival, Qur'An, Cairo, Egypt, Greg, Quran, Arabic, Muslim, Hoda Osman, Entertainment News

As a Muslim and an Arab I was by default attracted to Koran By Heart's subject matter. A film about an annual competition in reciting the Muslim holy book that takes place in my original hometown of Cairo.

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Ontornet: Lebanese Campaign Against Snail-Paced Internet Service

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Twitter, iloubnan.info, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Facebook, Arabic, Multimedia, Broadband, Saad Hariri, Internet, Social Media Exchange, Telecommunications, World Wide Web, Lebanese, Ontornet, Adsl, Hibr, Technology News

Lebanese Internet users are mad as hell and won't take it anymore, so they've launched a campaign to gripe about the country's disgracefully sluggish access to the World Wide Web.

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Kofta, Sheesha, Prayers, and Gaga

Deen Novelli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lady GaGa, Arabic, Alexandria, Egypt, Islamists, Lady Gaga Bad Romance, World News

On January 28th the world witnessed the courage of the Egyptian people and the cries of their hearts for freedom from an oppressive regime; I, on the ...

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State Department Launches Arabic Twitter feed

Federal Eye | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arabic, Arabic Twitter, Twitter, Twitter Feed, State Department Twitter, State Department Twitter Feed, Egypt, Technology News

The State Department -- already pretty good at the social media thing -- is now using Twitter to transmit its thoughts to the Arab world in ... Arabic...

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Mandatory Arabic Classes In Texas Schools On Hold

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Education, Language, Arabic, Foreign Languages, Culture, Mandatory Arabic, Texas School Arabic, Arabic in Texas Schools, Arabic in Texas, Mandatory Arabic Classes, Education News

A plan to make lessons in Arabic and Arab culture mandatory for students in some Texas schools has been put on hold, following feedback from parents. ...

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Foreign Language Courses Growing On Campuses

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Language, Modern Language Association, Arabic, Foreign Language Cuts, Foreign Language Report, College News

A growing number of college students are studying foreign languages, a trend propelled by greater interest in Arabic, a broader palette of languages b...

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Near Forgotten MLK Comic Gains Fans in the Middle East

Barbara Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Comics, Middle East, Arabic, Egypt, Iran, Comic Book, India, Egypt Protests, World News

In 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the real-life superhero of a comic book that inspired disenfranchised American youth to take action against segregation. Today, the comic is finding a new audience in the Middle East.

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Beirut Cathedral Museum Reveals Layers of Christian History

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christians, Crypt Museum, Beirut Law School, Lebanon, St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Arabic, Apostle Paul, Beirut, Metropolitan Elias Audi, Emir Fakhreddin II Maan, Quartus and Tercias, Middle East, Disciples Herastos, Al Amin Mosque, Nijmeh Square, Byzantine, Medieval, Mosaics, Christianity, Gentiles, Epistle to the Romans, Lebanese Civil War, Ottoman, Roman, Sosipater, Anastasis, Hellenistic, Mamelukes, Travel News

The recently opened crypt museum at the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in downtown Beirut is relatively small but packs a powerful punch by revea...

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Kinda Hibrawi and Her Modern Abstract Arabic Art

Nour Akkad | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arab Art, Saudi Arabia, Kinda Hibrawi, Arab Culture, Arab-Americans, Islamic Culture, Arabic, Calligraphy, Arabic Calligraphy, Syria, Arab Americans, Painters, Fine Art, Artists, Painting, Arts News

Hibrawi's ability to translate the rich meanings of Arabic script though her contemporary calligraphy surrounded by bright and vivid paint is exquisite.

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You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gibran National Committee, Cedars, Gibran Khalil Gibran, United States, Lebanon, Gibran Museum, St. Serge, Mar Sarkis, Britain, Arabic, Beirut, America, France, Paris, Rodin, English, The Prophet, The Thinker, Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese, Bsharri, Carmelite, Travel News

The music is haunting, as is the place where author, poet, and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran was born and buried, following a 48-year journey.

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Census Bureau Survey Draws Attention to Need for More Proactive Multicultural Approach

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: French, Washington, West Coast, Immigration, Thailand, Arabic, Denver, Farsi, Limited English Proficient, Chicago, American Community Survey, East Coast, u.s. Census Bureau, Korean, Swahili, Hispanic, Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Newborns, East Africa, Survey, Languages, Syracuse, Interpretation, Mandarin, Language, Burma, Lep, Legal Immigration, Immigrant, Census Bureau, D.C., Northern Virginia, Oromo, Amharic, Cantonese, Politics News

The release this past week of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) makes it clear that America's ethnic makeup is changing much quicker...

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New University to Rise in Haiti as Higher Education There In Collapse

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Liberal Arts in Action, Marcel Duret, Bartlett Giamatti, Arabic, Léogâne, International University of Haiti, International Library of Haiti, Liberal Arts, Dr. Eunhee Jung, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, State University of Haiti, Social Responsibility, Korea, University Center & Annex, International Students, Tokyo, Nyu, Haitain Ministry of National Education and Professional Formation, Art Restoration, Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development, Dr. Arol Buntzman, Haitian Diaspora, Social Entrepreneurism, Universities of the West Indies, Université D?ÉTat D?Haïti, Dr. Linda Stillman, National School of Administration and Finance, Japan, Dr. Louis Herns Marcelin, Haitian Higher Education, National School for Technology, Haitian Museum of Art, Yale University, Professional Development, Creating Global Citizens, Polytechnic Institute, Université De Port-Au-Prince, Haitian Ministry of Education, Enaf, Menfp, Ueh, Port?Au?Prince, Inured, Iuh, College News

The long-awaited post‐earthquake assessment of higher education institutions in the Port‐au‐Prince metropolitan area by the respected Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED) has been released.

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Abdel Kareem Nabil, Egyptian Blogger Jailed For Slamming Islam, Released After 4 Years

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Islam, Borg El-Arab, Egypt, Islam, Blogger Arrested, Kareem Amer, Islamic Culture, Hosni Mubarak, Arabic, Blog, Muhammad, Al-Azhar University, Muslims, Terrorism, Abdel Kareem Nabil, Blogger, World News

An Egyptian blogger jailed for four years for criticizing the Muslim faith and President Hosni Mubarak has been released, but sources say his first mo...

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