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Non, le libanais n’est pas un « dialecte arabe»

Non, le libanais n’est pas un « dialecte arabe»

Traduction par Emilio El-Dib, auteur du Liban expliqué à mes proches.
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No, Levantine is not a “dialect of” Arabic

No, Levantine is not a “dialect of” Arabic

SUMMARY: Lebanese (more broadly North Levantine) is influenced by Arabic (as well as other languages, such as Aramaic and…
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Something Neither Antisemitic Northern Supremacists Nor Arab Nationalists Will Like

Something Neither Antisemitic Northern Supremacists Nor Arab Nationalists Will Like

Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Pierre Zalloua
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The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the “diversity” operators

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

The diversity discourse appears to serve an insidious form of racism and Northern Euro supremacist agenda (with a redefinition of the…
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When did Lebanese Christians Start Speaking French?

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…
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Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.

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…
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No, Jesus was not a “NonWhite” refugee who would have voted for …

No, Jesus was not a “NonWhite” refugee who would have voted for …

Note added in June 2020:The archbishop of Canterbury claimed Jesus was “nonwhite”. Under such a definition so would Homer, Caesar…
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