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It is astonishing how much you can tell about a country's culinary legacy from the food that is peddled in its street stalls.
Dialects can be categorised in groups sometimes because of their similarities, such as "Levantine Arabic" or "Gulf Arabic" but there is a palpable difference between Levantine dialects and Gulf ones.
In this paper, we present the ARDIAL-BERT, the first multidialectal NER model which was built upon a continuous pretraining and then a finetuning on Arabic dialect publicly available datasets grouped ...
Seedo is a Palestinian Arabic word for grandfather, and the bakery nods to Abdullah’s roots in restaurants and hospitality. His grandfather owned a bakery in Jordan and made pita and sesame ka’ak ...
Levantine Films is betting on the queer rom-com “A Nice Indian Boy” with a theatrical release — a show of confidence in an era where rom-coms are often relegated to streaming platforms.
With the revamp, Albi’s ownership no longer identifies as a Levantine restaurant, but as a Palestinian one. Albi — which is Arabic for “my heart” — continues to honor Rafidi’s family roots in Ramallah ...
Levantine Arabic is spoken in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine. The dialect has been popularly known for its song-like tone and is staged as one of the most "romantic" varieties of Arabic.
This Levantine gem serves up incredible Middle Eastern dishes ... The buffet, which runs from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, is packed with mouth-watering mezze, juicy grills and all your Arabic favourites, and is ...