History

No, Levantine is not a “dialect of” Arabic

SUMMARY: Lebanese (more broadly North Levantine) is influenced by Arabic (as well as…

The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the “diversity” operators

Something Neither Antisemitic Northern Supremacists Nor Arab Nationalists Will Like

Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.

The BBC did some kind of educational cartoon on Roman Britain and represented “diversity” in terms of someone looking African in the show as representative of “diversity” at the time. The BBC was effectively applying quotas retroactively (I…

When did Lebanese Christians Start Speaking French?

The current narrative (and, I am not joking, given by “experts” in international relations, etc.) is that the Lebanese Christians, like inhabitants of the Maghreb, picked up French from something called “French colonialism”. But the French…