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How Arabic Became a Threat to “Social Cohesion” in Israel

Published October 26, 2017by Guest Contributor

by Orly Noy Israelis read Sunday morning that Israeli police had mistakenly arrested a Palestinian worker after relying on a Facebook translation of a post he had written a week earlier. The worker had uploaded a photo of himself standing next to… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Israel Arabic, Haneen Zoabi, Hebrew, Israel, Miri Regev, Orly Noy

The Many Flavors of Persian in Eurasia

Published October 23, 2017by Guest Contributor

by James Pickett Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very categories we use… Continue Reading →

Central Asia, Commentaries, Iran Arabic, Central Asia, Farsi, Iran, James Pickett, language, Russian, Tajik, Tajikistan

Islam’s Lesser Muslims: When “Khuda” became “Allah”

Published September 2, 2016by Alia Ahmed 30 Comments

by Alia P. Ahmed In 1985 a curious thing happened: a prominent Pakistani talk-show host bid her audience farewell with the words Allah Hafiz. It was an awkward substitution. The Urdu word for goodbye was actually Khuda Hafiz (meaning God… Continue Reading →

Pakistan Alia P. Ahmed, Arabic, Islam, language, Pakistan, Persian, South Asia, Urdu

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