Mohammad A. Taha

Arabic language educator from the DC area. Tweet mostly about the Mideast, less commonly taught languages & connecting across cultures. RT/Likes ≠ endorsement.

[Mohammad A. Taha @Maimonido]

We should no more conceive of #language without hearers than of a language that has no speakers; language is co-created - Allan Bell

[Dalloul Ahmad @DALLOULALNEDER]

My niece Remas was planning to be a Doctor .

[شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs @Gaza_Shaheed]

الشهيدة ولاء سعادة

صانعة ومخرجة أفلام فلسطينية، كاتبة ومدوّنة. ولدت في بيت حانون شماب غزة، عام 1990، وهي شغوفة بالسينما وصناعة الأفلام، بدأت ككاتبة سيناريو لاحقًا صنعت أفلامًا وثائقية وأفلام قصيرة. عملت في مؤسسات المجتمع المدني كمنسقة ومدربة منذ عام 2010.
طموحة، حالمة، ومبدعة. شاركت في إخراج العديد من الأفلام التي ساهمت في وصول معاناة أهل غزّة إلى العالم.

استشهدت يوم 2 مارس 2024، في قصف الاحتلال للنازحين بمدينة دير البلح، حيث قتلها الاحتلال مهجرةً خارج بلدتها وبيتها!

#شهداء_غزة

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

Statement of the Bloomington AAUP Executive Committee concerning the suspension of a tenured Associate Professor:

https://t.co/q7fWM08bhK

[بدر العلي 🌐 @Bader_S_AlAli]

الشعب الياباني عظيم، في عز مصاعبه مع الزلزال، كتب ياباني هذه التغريدة وتفاعل معها اليابانيون:

عندما شاهدت فيديو اليابانيين الناجيين من تحت الأنقاض بسبب الزلزال الذي ضرب اليابان اليوم، كانوا يقولوا (بأنهم شعروا بالوحدة وإعتقدوا أنهم سيموتوا تحت الأنقاض)،مثل حال الفلسطينيين في غزة،فهمت سبب تعاطف اليابانيين مع الشعب الفلسطيني.

رغم اختلاف أسباب الدمار، إلا أننا جميعًا نواجه خوفًا من انهيار المنازل والدفن تحت الأنقاض.

أنقذوا الناس، أنقذوا أكبر عدد ممكن. أنقذوا.
#日本国民ありがとう
＃日本が安全に祈る

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

BBC News has shown a clear bias, giving Israeli victims more coverage and more compassion than Palestinian victims.

[Nougat @MohdNohad]

سجدة الشكر والنصر
@AlakhbarNews

[شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs @Gaza_Shaheed]

الشهيدان يوسف وحنان جمعة

كان يوسف مثقفاً عالياً، يحب النقاشات الطويلة والمعبأة بالمعلومات..
أما حنان، المصابة بالسرطان، فقد ظهر اسمها في كشف التنسيقات المسموح لها بالخروج للعلاج إلى تركيا بمجرد فتح المعبر... اليوم، لم يعد يوسف يناقش الثقافة ولم تعد حنان بحاجة إلى السفر للعلاج!

استشهدا في 23 نوفمبر 2023.

#شهداء_غزة

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

The martyr, Dr. Duaa Khamis Younis (my cousin), was the firstborn to her parents. She spent her childhood in the UAE, loving life and being very kind to everyone. She completed her medical studies, married Engineer Ahmed Ashour, moved to Portugal, and had children: Janan, Ismail, and Noor. She was deeply attached to her children. She came to Gaza before the war to treat her son Ismail, unaware it would be her last visit, as death awaited them there. Israeli warplanes bombed the house they sought refuge in Gaza City, surviving but moving to what they believed was a safer place in southern Gaza, as stated by the occupying army. Sadly, Duaa, along with her children Janan and Ismail, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on the house they sought shelter in Khan Younis on November 15, 2023, while her daughter Noor survived.

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

All those in the picture are martyrs.

The martyr Abdul Nasser Awad

He is A teacher in UNRWA schools.
A man of noble character, loved by everyone, and everyone attests to his respect and love for helping others.

He dreamt of praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he realized his dream last July, unaware that three months later he would become a martyr.

In this photo, he appears with all his grandchildren. Israel decided to commit a massacre against them, annihilating them all.

He and all members of his family were martyred in a massacre carried out by Israeli planes on October 27, 2023.

[blkp🔻 @blkpaws]

Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.

[Naoki Yamamoto @NaokiQYamamoto]

"al-Fatiha"
Sura al-Fatiha written with traditional Japanese calligraphy.
Designed by Naoki Yamamoto

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

[Mohammad A. Taha @Maimonido]

هل ماتت العربية الفصحى؟
https://t.co/D4KBpDIO8o

[Dr. Javad T Hashmi @DrJavadTHashmi]

The organization I work for, @mpac_national, an American Muslim organization with a 35-year history, has just issued a statement of support for the art professor fired from @HamlineU. Read the statement here:

https://t.co/F3Rk7dV7BD

[MultiLingual Media @multilingualmag]

Between 2010 and 2020, 596 books were translated from Arabic to English and published in the UK and Ireland — nearly double the number from 10 years prior.

#arabic #literature #translation #literarytranslation

[ذو الندبة @SonOfJenin]

Cypriot Arabic spoken by the Local Maronite Population🇨🇾

Arabic-Speaking Christians arrived in Cyprus in the 7th Century. This Dialect of Arabic is thus quite ancient. It also has noticeable Greek & Aramaic influence.

[Mohammad A. Taha @Maimonido]

Features of al-Qatif regional dialect in KSA's eastern province
#Qatif #SpokenArabic
https://t.co/gvXeKM3v1n

[Mohammad A. Taha @Maimonido]

@DrAbbasKadhim Common sense is a wonderful thing.

[Nassreddin 🍉 نصر الدين @Nassreddin2002]

Y’all don’t know what kind of chaotic linguistic mosaic Morocco is. You drive for a short while and people become unintelligible, like for real 😀

[Mohammad A. Taha @Maimonido]

@abajanna
استاذ كمال، الرجاء الإفادة كيف يمكن التواصل معكم على الخاص مباشرة بخصوص طلب الإذن لاستخدام مادة/محتوى من تأليفكم، مودتي