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Tag Name "Arabic" (64)

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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Shakira
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I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.
Junaid Jamshed
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The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.
Laura Poitras
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Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.
Kenji Goto
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Learn the Arabic language it will sharpen your wisdom.
Umar
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Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
John Abizaid
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In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.
Annia Ciezadlo
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INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
Ambrose Bierce
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Brian Eno
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I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
Joe Strummer
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During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
Nawal El Saadawi
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eL Seed was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing Le Cid coming from the Arabic name el sayed, which means the master, the man. So I called myself like that because I was 16 I said, Yes, I'm the man. That's how it started.
eL Seed
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I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.
eL Seed
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Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.
Etgar Keret
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
Freya Stark
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If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.
Bruno Zheng Wu
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
Nadine Labaki
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
Ibn Khaldun
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It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.
eL Seed
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But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.
John Abizaid
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Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.
Tariq Ramadan
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Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.
Nawal El Saadawi
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