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Surprisingly few Coptic words survive in Egyptian, a fact that reflects how quickly the natives adopted Arabic, despite a reputation for resisting outside cultures. Egyptians began to convert to ...
The Tunisian, Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic used in everyday life ... but I don't use the same exact words in the same order, and if I am tired or lazy, I might even skip a detail or two." ...
Egyptian graphic designer Mahmoud El Sayed ... he expanded the project and illustrated over 40 different Arabic words. Calligraphy has been an art form for centuries in the Middle East, using ...
Egyptian Arabic even has its own Wikipedia ... but young Palestinians and Jordanians can blog or podcast in their own words. A broader collapse in pan-Arabism, alongside that of Egyptian power ...
Alexandria-based graphic designer Mahmoud Tammam has taken 40 Arabic words and transformed them to match their meanings. The beautifully minimalistic project uses the arches, dots, and curves of ...
Egypt's parliament is considering a proposal for preserving the Arabic language that has caused ... and for colloquial and foreign words to be avoided. The motion, due to be discussed in ...
Unwritten in Roman-alphabet transliterations, it’s actually a consonant that begins many common words ... Arabic spoken in Morocco is as different from Arabic spoken in Egypt and from Modern ...