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الموجة التي لم تنته من التشكيك في الماضي

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

And even more specific to my dialect of Algiers, our retention of the actual pronunciation of ق is not going to make me denounce its replacement with “g” which is the most widespread, or even the glottal stop in other regions

Because I am a normal person..

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

People don’t realize how much attitudes toward the degree of linguistic commonality or mutual comprehension are more ideologically driven than they are based on hard facts about dialectal differences

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

People in the Mashriq completely take for granted the foreign loan words & idiosyncrasies of their own dialect & exaggerate the unintelligibility of Maghrebi Arabic and then Maghrebis are convinced that “Darija” (lit means colloquial btw) is a creole, both ends need to get fixed

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

There are also a plethora of words in Algerian Arabic that have a clear MSA connection where in Egyptian Arabic it appears to be more nebulous, when in reality all hark back to the truly extensive range of root words in Arabic with endless, slightly subtle difference in meaning

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

People in the Mashriq completely take for granted the foreign loan words & idiosyncrasies of their own dialect & exaggerate the unintelligibility of Maghrebi Arabic and then Maghrebis are convinced that “Darija” (lit means colloquial btw) is a creole, both ends need to get fixed

[َ @rmaesque]

it’s because you guys are just stupid

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

I will forever be proud to say he is my great uncle

[الجزيرة الوثائقية @AljazeeraDoc]

"يا الرايح وين مسافر".. ليست مجرد أغنية، بل مرآة لتجربة إنسانية كاملة عن الغربة والبحث عن الذات.

غناها دحمان الحراشي في السبعينيات، في سياق شهد موجات هجرة واسعة من الجزائر إلى أوروبا، فكانت صوتا صادقا يعبّر عن وجه الرحيل الآخر.

بكلمات بسيطة وعميقة، تخاطب الأغنية كل من ظن أن السفر خلاص، مذكرة بأن الغربة ليست طريقا سهلا، بل تجربة مثقلة بالحنين والوحدة، وأن الإنسان قد يطوف العالم، ثم يعود في النهاية إلى ذاته وجذوره.

وقد استعادت الأغنية حضورها عالميا، حين أعاد غناءها رشيد طه، وبقيت واحدة من أبرز الأغاني العربية، التي اختزلت معنى الرحيل والندم.

القصة الكاملة يرويها الفيلم الوثائقي "ثورة الحراشي.. يا الرايح وين مسافر".

#الجزيرة_الوثائقية
#وراء_كل_صورة_حكاية

[نفح @Nafh_alTib]

The lyrics of his songs revolve around popular themes and use a pure, eloquent, and refined dialect from the old city of Algiers. The majority of the words used are of Arabic origin and remain easily understandable to anyone willing to make the effort to listen and understand

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

@LellaButtercup So yes, I am critical of what you wrote and signaled it as nefarious for its general implications, far beyond whatever it is you are responding to which I am not tapped in

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

@LellaButtercup I can understand that this is all too much to expect from people outside the history profession, but I also think it comes down to having a certain sensibility and orientation to the past, and a will to resist essentialism no matter what it is in defense of

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

@LellaButtercup There’s this frenzy that takes over Maghrebis where they start highlighting random phrases from European sources on Facebook and constructing grand narratives without any command over the historiographies on these time periods and places

From a historian’s POV it’s nauseating

[🇵🇸 ص @myqsar]

@LellaButtercup I’m not steeped into whatever politics influenced this thread but I can’t stress how ridiculous this entire thing you wrote was