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This characteristically French twist on an Arabic story about sex and impossibility takes place on the island of Djerba where trader husbands return to their wives for only one month of the year. That four week break in the clouds proves only to be a frenzy to catch up on...
If you want a quick lesson before hopping onto the Fung Wah Chinatown bus, Fred Astaire’s Seyyide (“lady” in Arabic) offers Egyptian bellydancing. The modern two-floor studio is located in downtown Boston near Chinatown, and specializes in ballroom dancing. Belly dancing...
Inside a drab brown former municipal building, teens and grandmas get down with their bad selves in belly dancing classes taught by Johara (a stage name—“Jewel” in Arabic). Although the clickety-clack of the tap ingenues in the adjacent studio travels through...
It seems to be in the nature of genius to zero in on its purpose. In the 1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to...
According to Ahmed al-Rahim, Harvard’s preceptor in Arabic, tight restrictions on the availability of books and scholarly journals imposed on Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s 25-year regime, especially since the last Gulf War, prevented Iraqi academics from keeping up with developments in their...