Can language and photography bring us together? MEMO in Conversation with Fadi BouKaram ‘Cedrusk’

Did you know the Arabic word for Austria – An-Namsa – comes from Proto-Slavic language and means ‘mute’ or someone who doesn’t speak and this was applied to anyone who could not speak a Slavic language? Why is the loquat fruit in Turkish called yeni dunya or ‘new world’ while in Arabic it’s called akideneh and iskidenya derived from the Turkish word eski dunya or the ‘old world’? Why do foreign learners of a language have a hard time understanding certain sounds in the language they are learning?  Fadi BouKaram, better known as Cedrusk on Instagram, set out to explore the roots of different languages and the human stories behind them.  A former professional photographer turned tax transparency lawyer by […] Source

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