Anthony Edwards

Assistant Professor of Arabic at W&L. Runner. Historian. Language Enthusiast.

[UptownBerber @HishamAidi]

"It was not easy to trace the whereabouts of Joseph Ibrahim Nehmeh, a man originally from Deir al-Qamar — then the capital of the Emirate of Mount Lebanon — who arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1795." https://t.co/QlfBGWfTJ5

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

"Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800"
eds. Christopher D. Bahl, Stefan Hanss
PUB: Palgrave Macmillan,2022

Open access as PDF in Egypt; I'm not sure if it's available in other countries!

https://t.co/d02kWHmgjC

[Mubeen Raza @mubeenr25]

The reality is that #Morocco and the entire Muslim Ummah lost today.

The scholar with arguably the highest chains of Hadith in the world, Shaykh Abdal-Rahman Kattani, has passed away in Morocco aged 107. He narrated Sahih al-Bukhari with only 18 links between him and the author

[MESA @MESA_1966]

The #MESA2022 Mentoring Award Winner is Kirsten Brustad of the University of Texas at Austin.

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

New Publication:
"Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History"
by: Suraiya Faroqhi
PUB: I.B.Tauris, 2023
Hardcover will be released on February 23, 2023

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

W&L's 1st Arabic Poetry Night!! @wluglobal @wlu_MESA @wlunews @wluLex

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

Apple's Siri yitkallam 3arabi! https://t.co/vDhLsgD82O via @StepFeed @wluglobal @wlunews

[Arabic Lang & Lit @wluARABIC]

W&L Offers Arabic On Campus for First Time https://t.co/tcKcVKJIjh @wlunews @wluglobal @wluLex

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

Cairo's chaotic beauty caught in time-lapse film https://t.co/HbAOjuqjBg via @StepFeed @wluglobal

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

How would you translate #1? @willscottgraham https://t.co/5v93xGEnuW

[Arabic Lang & Lit @wluARABIC]

Dictionaries ain't gonna help ya with these Lebanese Arabic phrases @wluglobal @wlunews https://t.co/zEiVXWXaie

[Arabic Lang & Lit @wluARABIC]

Photographs of Palmyra from 1864 @wluglobal @wlunews http://t.co/hKFEwbE156

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

10 MENA Films at the upcoming Beirut International Film Festival https://t.co/TrGfppCUjw @wluglobal @wlunews

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

German+peace+prize+for+Syrian+poet+Adonis+sparks+outrage+http://t.co/OLERosknbH

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

BBC News - Five bizarre 'lessons' in Indian textbooks http://t.co/TXMo4r28T1

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

brilliant language start up for syrian refugees
http://t.co/xHnU85J7IN @wluglobal @wluLex

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

Egyptian Arabic Proverbs Rock! https://t.co/mhHqoiawIu

[Mark Rush @Mark_Rush]

A great start to our new Arabic initiative! @wlulex @wlunews @wluARABIC https://t.co/mbrSMfIJOK

[Anthony Edwards @AustinHoya]

5 million books in one year . . . the Arabic Book It Program https://t.co/BryrVo6qYw

[Mark Rush @Mark_Rush]

I envy my parents: vote for HST, Ike, Stevenson, JFK, Nixon, Johnson... no matter who won, u knew they could run the country. #GOPDebate