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Sami Jiries
@samijiries.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Middle East Studies and Linguistics || Sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic || he/him هُوِّه/ـُه || 🇵🇸🌈
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!
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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.
February 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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.
September 9, 2023 at 7:45 PM
My roommate drinks Celsius energy drinks so I decided to have one and now I'm tweaking.
September 7, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters are on another level
September 2, 2023 at 8:31 PM
A brief history of an Arabic word مِسكين miskīn and its ancient Akkadian origin 🧵
August 21, 2023 at 8:08 PM
reading about syrian arabic in sociolinguistic studies from pre-2011 is unbelievably depressing
August 17, 2023 at 12:31 AM
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.
July 25, 2023 at 3:05 PM
a running thread of the funny sarcastic sayings I've heard from my palestinian family growing up:
July 25, 2023 at 2:44 PM
gonna start migrating some of my threads from the other site :)
July 25, 2023 at 2:20 PM