The translations from Greek to Arabic were not done by Muslims. Even great fans of Greece like Avicennas or Averrois did not know Old Greek, they read the texts from translations into Arabic that had been edited by Armenian Christians like Hunain ibn-Ishaq, known as the “Prince of Translations”. Ancient Greece represented a world foreign […]
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Palestine is Greek not Arabic or Jewish
Originally, the name “Palestine” finds its roots in the historical context of the Philistines, an ancient people, possibly related to the Greeks, known as the “Sea Peoples.” The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket […]
Perfect Nature: Encountering The Self As A Spiritual Guide In The Arabic Hermetica
The Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica are a core subgroup of Arabic Hermetic texts which take the form of discourses and letters of the philosopher Aristotle to Alexander the Great. Read more Section: News Premium Preview Read Later Source Views: 0
To Hebron in Arabic — a rabbi’s journey
For over a decade I have taught rabbinic students Biblical Hebrew. For the past couple of years I have been a student of Arabic. I started in May 2020 with Duolingo, driving my family to distraction with a steady stream of triumphant ka-chings, the app’s way of giving students affirmation. I continued with two semesters at […]
Arabic calligraphy added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list
UNESCO has included Arabic calligraphy in its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list on Tuesday. The recognition followed a Saudi-led nomination which included 16 Arabic-speaking countries. The kingdom had declared the years of 2020 and 2021 as the “Years of Arabic Calligraphy”, part of which was the call for the art form to be included […]
On Nasser’s Fight for Arabic Independence and a Free Palestine
Cynthia Chung June 15, 2021 Nasser became the catalyst for an Arab Revolution for independence, a revolution that remains yet to be finished, Cynthia Chung writes. In the 1950s the so-called enemy of the West was not only Moscow but the Third World’s emerging nationalists, from Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt to Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. The […]
Rare Arabic Coin Provides Clue in Disappearance of Fugitive Pirate
Henry Every (Avery) was a brutal English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the mid-1690s. Assuming the names “Jack,” “Benjamin Bridgeman,” and “Long Ben,” in 1695 AD Capt. Henry Every plundered a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims and after posing as a slave trader he sailed out of history and was never seen again. Jim Bailey, 53, […]
Arabic press review: Palestinians step up efforts to sue Israel at ICC
Meanwhile, Hamas is reportedly split on decision to participate in elections, and Egypt and the UAE feel alienated after results of UN-sponsored Libyan elections The Bakr family in their house in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on 7 February, with posters of four children from their extended family killed during the 2014 Gaza […]
How do you say ‘urban renewal’ in Arabic? In Israel, you don’t
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Students in Arabic-language schools still have to submit research proposals in Hebrew
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Israel’s employment service fails to provide forms in Arabic, tells applicants to ‘get help from relatives’
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Man in Berlin attacked with belt as suspect shouts ‘Jew’ in Arabic (VIDEO)
The person in the video was one of three suspects that insulted two Jewish men in Berlin’s affluent Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood on Monday evening, according to German media. One of the trio was filmed attacking one of the Jewish men with his belt. The attacker can be heard shouting “Yahudi” in the video, an Arabic […]
Want to study Arabic? This Gaza university now offers Skype-in classes
Arabic is the fifth-most commonly spoken language in the world, with an estimated 250 million native speakers. It’s a useful language to know, and a university in the Gaza Strip is offering to teach it via Skype — while reducing the isolation imposed on it by a decade-long Israeli blockade. The Islamic University of Gaza […]
Iran to dispatch English, Arabic-speaking clerics to Arbaeen congregation
Tasnim– More than 100 Iranian clergymen, fluent in English and Arabic, will travel to Iraq to preach to large crowds of pilgrims performing religious rituals during Arbaeen in commemoration of Imam Hussein (AS), an official said. Speaking to Tasnim, secretary of the society of preachers said the young English and Arabic-speaking clerics are planned to […]
‘Powder, sharps, threats in poor Arabic’ sent to homes of Angela Merkel, other politicians
Islam a ‘political doctrine,’ not just a religion – co-chair of Germany’s AfD party Berlin police carried out a preliminary investigation into the contents of the suspicious mail, and concluded that the letters had been sent on Wednesday and Thursday. The powder was not found to be a hazardous substance, the German Interior Ministry stated. […]
Video captures RT Arabic contributor Khaled Alkhateb’s last seconds before death at hands of ISIS
Journalist working with RT Arabic killed in Homs province of Syria during ISIS shelling Muutaz Yaqoub, the cameraman who supplied the footage, says Alkhateb was warned that the assignment near Al-Sukhnah, in the Syrian province of Homs, a frontline where the government is fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants was unsecured, but would not […]
Journalist working with RT Arabic killed in Homs province of Syria during ISIS shelling
The journalist was filming a report on the Syrian Army’s operations against ISIS terrorists. He and a Syrian Army official, who has not been identified yet, were killed in a rocket attack by Islamic State militants near a village called Bghailiyah, in Homs province, according to the head of RT Arabic’s office in Damascus, Abdelhameed […]