Arabic Nerds

This past Saturday, I was down in Khan el-Khalili (the medieval bazaar) in Islamic Cairo for a few hours.… The post Arabic scripts in Khan el-Khalili appeared first on The Arabic Learner. Source link

The Qur’an is full of fascinating words that we want to take a closer look at. In this article, we will focus on the word Salsabil (سَلْسَبِيل). There is probably no big city in which there is not at least one Arabic restaurant called “Salsabil“. In Berlin, for example, there are a few, like this

As a journalist, I read Arabic newspapers daily, especially the opinion section. Every month, I want to share with you on Arabic for Nerds what I find interesting from a linguistic perspective and which vocabulary might be worth learning. I call it the Media Arabic Booster. Headlines in Arabic media are generally easy to understand

For people learning Arabic, there’s a bunch of online tools that can help make things easier. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about some of the best add-ons you can use in Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari. So let’s take a look at what the best add-ons and extensions are for the most

One might ask why someone who spent so many years (really, decades) studying Arabic would suddenly switch to Hebrew. In my own personal case, it was not so much a sudden shift for me, as Hebrew had long been a “back-burner” language that I wanted to study. Originally, I sought to read the Old Testament

As a journalist, I read Arabic newspapers daily, especially the opinion section. Every month, I want to share with you on Arabic for Nerds what I find interesting from a linguistic perspective and which vocabulary might be worth learning. I call it the Media Arabic Booster. Headlines in Arabic media are generally easy to understand