Fadi BouKaram

Jack of all trades, master of none. Also a photographer.

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@MaxBlumenthal Pure evil this woman..

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Kim Ghattas @KimGhattas]

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
https://t.co/uC8U60vEgY

[Ronnie Chatah @thebeirutbanyan]

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

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

#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

https://t.co/b3Fbz7AW1e

#languages #photograph #MEMO #Cedrusk

[Fadi BouKaram @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

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

#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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@irishexaminer @PTHosford The man has become an embarrassment…

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Hanada Taha Thomure هنادا طه @HanadaEducation]

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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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)

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The editor of the Irish TImes has apologised for what he described as a "breach of trust" between the newspaper and its readers and said it needs to make its pre-publication procedures more robust https://t.co/KzeRC7i5iY

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

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

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@Lama_AlAyoubi Thank you!

[TheMilkOfLions @MilkLions]

@CedrusK Mars most probably comes from Italian. Very common for Italian words to enter Ottoman Turkish. See below source:
https://t.co/p45TfyGiJm

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@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’.

[Fadi BouKaram @CedrusK]

@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