Fadi BouKaram

@MaxBlumenthal Pure evil this woman..

Nikki Haley on Gaza: “If you do a pause, if you do a ceasefire, people die.”

@mickokeeffe That was not ‘Allahu Akbar’… can we please not male stuff up?

@KimGhattas @gizou10 @FT Thank you for this beautiful tribute, Kim

Giselle Khoury @gizou10 was an exceptional human being, one of the best journalists and interviewers, she was above all a friend. With profound sadness, I was honored to write her obituary in @FT I hope I did her justice. Lebanon+ Arab world will miss her ft.com/content/43b801…

A timely discussion with the great @CedrusK With the limited tools we share in communication & expression, we will discuss language and persuasion in times of heightened emotion, the difficulty in finding pragmatism when offering narrative against complexity, and the wider reality of where we are in this time of political uncertainty. Join us on Instagram Live on Monday, 23 October from 9-10pm Beirut time / 7-8pm Dublin time

#MEMOInConversation MEMO in Conversation with Fadi BouKaram 'Cedrusk' Can language and photography bring us together? @CedrusK On Wednesday 06th September, LIVE AT 4PM (UK Time) on MEMO's Facebook live facebook.com/middleeastmoni… #languages #photograph #MEMO #Cedrusk

@_Khayyat_ @Hannahmc_carthy @stanfordpress @tcddublin @CAP_Ltd I’ll pass by Hodge Figgis today to see. Eason on weekend if not. And would love to attend the launch if that’s open to the public

@CedrusK @Hannahmc_carthy @stanfordpress @tcddublin @CAP_Ltd Thanks Fadi! I hope so - I've harassed a few of the bigger ones about it, but I haven't confirm if they've succumbed to my pressure. We may also have copies at my launch event at Trinity on October 26th, but I'm still working on that.

I'm biased, yes, but this article by @Hannahmc_carthy about the Lebanese famine (and my book) is excellent and definitely worth your time! @stanfordpress @tcddublin @CAP_Ltd

#MEMOInConversation MEMO in Conversation with Fadi BouKaram 'Cedrusk' Can language and photography bring us together? @CedrusK On Wednesday 06th September, LIVE AT 4PM (UK Time) on MEMO's Facebook live #languages #photograph #MEMO #Cedrusk

@irishexaminer @PTHosford The man has become an embarrassment…

The Taoiseach said that while he speaks to Mary Lou McDonald about the North and other issues, "we're not going to talk about forming a coalition" | @PTHosford reports irishexaminer.com/news/politics/…

@HanadaEducation شكرا على هذه الرسالة، دكتور. معك حق مئة في المئة

لمحة: اللغة العربية حقٌّ للجميع. التنمر غير مقبول. #جامعة_زايد #مركز_زاي_لبحوث_اللغة_العربية #اللغة_العربية

Even if the article wasn’t AI-generated, and even if the alleged writer was real, the piece shouldn’t have been so easily published. This is the same mindset that led to the ‘Sokal Squared’ scandal in the US (but at least this isn’t a peer-reviewed paper)

@maltinyildiz It does come from Arabic. But the hindi word शिकायत thar’s pronounced the same (not sanskrit as far as i’ve seen) comes from Arabic as well, via Farsi

@CedrusK Could you please look into “ şikayet “ ? It means complain. I thought that it comes from Arabic. But, it is used with same pronounciation in Sankskrit. ( maybe the oldest language)

The mostly-persian origin (with a bit of turkish) to reading dice digits in backgammon in some arabic dialects.

@kavelalpaslan Nisanyan is a well-respected linguist. Though in here even he seems not sure. Isn’t it what “ancak bu kesin değildir” mean?

@CedrusK I have no idea, but according to this source its coming from Arabic 'mrs', do you think can be related? nisanyansozluk.com/kelime/mars

@HichamRustom That comes from Turkish ‘oyun’ meaning ‘game’

@CedrusK What about el 2ioun (إيون) when u win by one and not 2

@Lama_AlAyoubi Thank you!

@CedrusK your videos are my favorite thing on the internet right now

@CedrusK Mars most probably comes from Italian. Very common for Italian words to enter Ottoman Turkish. See below source: google.com/books/edition/…

@MilkLions Thank you for that! But now seems there are a gee conflicting sources? A persian source mentions it’s related to roman god Mars. And linguist sevan nisanyan says it’s probably related to arabic مَرس, meaning ‘submerging’.

@BabakkAb Thanks for that. Odd that a well-known turkish linguist (nisanyan) says it’s ‘likely’ an arabic word that means submerging in water (which is true), but i still find the connection to either dunking or the god mars to be a bit of a stretch

I looked into Persian encyclopediae, and found two mentions in context of Backgammon (تخته نرد "Takhte̞ nard") that "Mars" is a borrowed word from the god of war, and another that it is coming from Turkish, and in Turkish, the same roman meaning. To my ears, the word "Mars" does not sound a Farsi, or Turkish word. Therefore, as the current form of Backgammon is coming from Roman era, the word "Mars", might come from the actual Mars.