حِبْر root: ح-ب-ر / noun / definition: ink Never have I veered so close to spontaneity before. It was a Thursday morning and I had just applied for a linguistics summer school—without realising that it was due to start just four days later in Sardinia’s capital, and that the deadline had passed weeks before. Somehow,Continue reading “A Summer School, Sardinia, and Spent Ink”
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Arabic-Turkish Observations: the Mediterranean Sea
أَبيَض root: ب-ي-ض / adjective / definition: white Anyone who knows both Turkish and Arabic might have realised that the terms for the Mediterranean Sea in both languages include the word “white”: we have Akdeniz in Turkish, and البحر الأبيض المتوسّط in Arabic. But the reasons this sea is described as “white” in these twoContinue reading “Arabic-Turkish Observations: the Mediterranean Sea”
The Arabic Pages 