In the spring quarter starting in March, I’m going to be teaching a course on the sociolinguistics of Levantine Arabic that I designed myself.

I’m excited but also very nervous!

The only two countries that are named after the people who rule them are the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I came across a Middle East travel diary by a German traveler named Ulrich J. Seetzen. In April 1805, he visited a Syrian town called Laṭmīn where people hated "Franks" (aka Europeans) so he constantly had insults thrown at him.

Modern Arabic speakers may recognize them.

My roommate drinks Celsius energy drinks so I decided to have one and now I'm tweaking.

Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters are on another level

A brief history of an Arabic word مِسكين miskīn and its ancient Akkadian origin 🧵

reading about syrian arabic in sociolinguistic studies from pre-2011 is unbelievably depressing

my pfp is the ruins of the temple of hercules in the amman citadel.

my header is a picture i took one morning in my dad's village in palestine 2009.

a running thread of the funny sarcastic sayings I've heard from my palestinian family growing up:

gonna start migrating some of my threads from the other site :)