ما هو أفضل صب عربي من ناحية المواضيع المطروحة والنقاشات ؟

Don't worry, JK

ثم ماذا؟ هل أنا باقٍ هُنا؟ لَسْتُ أَدرِي مَن أكون؟ مَن أنا؟ قَدْ مَضَى النَّاسُ لتحقيقِ المُنَى وَبَقِيتُ؛ لا ضلالٌ أو هُدى

ليسَ بي يأسٌ ولا بي أمَلُ لَستُ أَدْرِي بَعدُ كيفَ الْعَمَلُ إنَّما أَحْيَا وكَُِلِّي وَجَلٌ أنْ يَكُونَ العُمرُ قد ولَّى سُدى

حَاجَةٌ في النَّفْسِ تأبَى الانْقِضاء لَسْتُ أدْرِيها ولا أدري الدَّواء رُحتْ أسْلُوهَا بِترجيعِ الغناء كيف أسْلُوها بِلَحنٍ قَد شَجى؟

كَتَبَها أَحَدُهِم

السلام عليكم ورحمته الله و بركاته So as the title suggests I would like to learn Arabic (Fusha) in the upcoming year till next Ramadan I wish to have superficial knowledge enough to communicate and hold basic conversations. At the moment ik some words and phrases especially from the Quran and by picking up from people speaking at a local mosque. As well as some words which are similar in Urdu and Arabic. Any recommendations on where I should start?

أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِي مِنْكَ أَنْ تَرْحَمَا؟

وَتَعْصي الْعَوَاذِلَ وَاللُّوَّمَا

وَتَرْثِي لِصَبٍّ بِكُمْ مُغْرَمٌ

أَقَامَ عَلَى هَجْرِكُمْ مَأْتَمَا

يَبِيتُ إِذَا جَنَّهُ لَيْلُهُ

يُرَاعِي الْكَوَاكِبَ وَالْأَنْجُمَا

وَمَاذَا عَلَى الصَّبِّ لَوْ أَنَّهُ

أَحَلَّ مِنَ الْوَصْلِ مَا حَرَّمَا

ـ عبد الله بن المبارك ـ

No one helped or moved a finger when Iraq was invaded, no one did anything when Libya was bombed, no one did anything when Syria was riddled with nations fighting for oil, all that will happen in Gaza is as the west sees fit, if the west decides to kill all of the people of Gaza they will, can you guess why? BECAUSE NO ONE IN THE REGION HAS THE BALLS TO STEP UP TO THE WEST, what are the people of Arab nations doing? Screaming, that's it, don't try and tell me "actually it has benifits and it is this", no, yelling in a group will not change anything, people from certain nations can actually help Gaza and weaken the army by stopping the trucks and robbing it, or hijacking the car, or straight up kill the drivers and anyone who protects them, but noooooo, God forbid someone takes action, instead of forcing the trucks to turn and leave all that the people do is hold signs, paper changes nothing, before someone calls me a zionist or a coward I am not, I am looking at the situation from an objective view, the people are not doing anything when they can do a lot, instead they just hold signs and yell, which does nothing and adds nothing at all, what is happening in palistine is exactly what happened in Syria, Iraq, Libya, the only difference is due to widespread use of phones than in 2003-2014 we can see what people from those nations went through that history didn't show, and how didn't the people from those nations win the conflict? They didn't, we still suffer from actions taken decades ago and no one does anything about it, same thing in Palestinie, no one will do anything if everyone in Gaza will be blown to pieces, there is no one stopping the zionist from going bonkers on them, so don't really look at the situation with a positive view and "hope", hope does nothing look at the situation realistically and accept the facts, that's the only thing that people can do and not turn a blind eye and educate ourselves, you can protest all you want but unless you are aiming to chop the leaders' heads off nothing will change and blood will continue to be spilled

So lately I’ve been wondering where can I find a website or app that would show me that there’s an Arab convention or Arab concert in London / uk.

it’s important to be in those settings to feel at home and be more in touch.

Do any Arab singers come to London like hussein al jasmi/ elissa etc ??

thank you

For general discussion, requests and quick questions.

للنشرِ فائدةٌ لِناشرِ شعرِهِ 

ما بعدَ أغراضٍ لَنا قد تُعرفُ

تلكم لَتنبيهٌ لما قد فاتَهُ

مِنْ نحوِنا أو حبْكِ وزنٍ يُرهَفُ

• عبد الله د. مصطفی الجبوري

ٌفَلَيْتَكَ تَحلُو، وَالحَيَاة ُ مَرِيرَة ٌ

‏وَلَيْتَكَ تَرْضَى وَالأَنَامُ غِضَابُ

‏وَلَيْتَ الّذي بَيْني وَبَيْنَكَ عَامِرٌ

‏وبيني وبينَ العالمينَ خرابُ

‏إذا صَحَّ مِنكَ الودُّ فالكُلُّ هَيِّنٌ

‏وكُلُّ الذي فَوقَ التُّرابِ تُرابِ ..

يارب

Just here to wish Happy Easter to everyone for those who practice. Hope you all are stuffing yourselves with ma’amoul as well!

هذه قصة رجل فقير من ولاية كيرالا بالهند يُدعى محمد نجيب، ذهب إلى الرياض في التسعينيات على أمل كسب لقمة العيش وإعالة أسرته، لكنه حوصر في الصحراء كعبد لسنوات. الفيلم مقتبس من رواية أيام الماعز للكاتب بنيامين. وهو متوفر حالياً في الإمارات العربية المتحدة وقريباً في البحرين (3 أبريل). أحاول نشر الوعي حول هذا الموضوع كمحب للسينما

From inaccurate timelines of airport construction to accusing retired officials no longer in power, the evidence presented does not line up with reality. When sources lack cultural understanding of a region, fact-finding becomes impossible. We must demand accountability and application of critical thinking from organizations entrusted to report objectively on global conflicts.

أناْ مِنْ عبادِ اللهِ مِثلُهُمُ سعی 

   وعسی أُجازی بالفضيلة أفضلا

لا خيرَ  فيمن  قد سعی   لِتَكَبُّرٍ  

   وَوِشايةٍ   أو  إمّعاً  أو   أخطلا

*عبد الله د. مصطفی الجبوري

• سعی إمّعا أي سعی مع الناس يقول ما يقولون ولا رأي له.

• سعی أخطلا أي سعی وهو يقول الفحش والبذاءة.

salaam

i'm doing a small research study on Arabizi and how it's percieved/used in online Arab spaces. if you could fill out my form i'd really appreciate it, it's super simple and should take literally about 30 seconds!

forms.gle/cZ6mcAJnHnTLbgWf6

shukran ktir w ramadan kareem!

ليش اغلبهم يكرهون العرب ؟

I can't explain enouph how huge this war is and how much is on stack the winner of this war will. Take everything the loser will lose everything; litteraly Zionist and USA are putting There entire weight to finish Gaza and hammas And build the Ben-Gurion canal and there is nothing will stand against theme to finish the job .

Lets get you up to the new USA are taking rubble full of skulls and bones of Gaza population to build the new port; while Arabs are waiting to celebrate the end of ramadan Holliday .

On the other side you have Arabs leaders or whores what ever there name are preparing the narrative; blaming hammas and Iran for the entire event while they will receive some money in form of investment loans to keep there country stable or Arabs population to rebel against them .

At this point I don't know what can wake us up Beside few people on these sub or the 1 percent of people who protest in street the rest of Arabs they just don't care .

For some reason the alarm is not working for us Gaza are so close to be erased and yet Arabs morons are still repeating what ever the whores In power told them.

Years ago I saw a martial arts debate which self-defense instructor Marc MacYoung (who has a degree in history) participated. Basically the debate was asking about working manual laborers beating martial artists and used a clip from a fictional TV show of a butcher who was overwhelming a trained soldier who was well-versed in martial arts (in fact he took out a bunch of bandits who held an entire train by hostage in prior episodes). to the point the soldier who was making movements to defend against the blow panicked at some point and the butcher was able to put some nasty cuts on hi arms because he fell down and was unable to continue proper defensive movements because he got overtaken by fear. Though in the end the soldier survived.

The person who asked the question said his relatives come from Algeria as a bonus point and were far more effective their cutting techniques when preparing for food (including cutting chickens heads off and preparing animal meat from the slaughterhouse) and also pointed out about the Algerian Revolution and rebels ambushing police and even a few military police with knives.

MacYoung made a point that being a soldier is different from fighting skills and a sa the debate continued it went off tangentially into military and history. From what I remembered MacYoung was telling the poster that the reality is that insurgencies never win wars and its the conventional army that wins wars and points out many examples like the Viet Cong getting demolished when they confronted a military force and made a mocking statement about multiple guerrillas like the French Resistance, Filipino bushwackers against Imperial Japan in WWII, and the FLN in Algeria not being able to beat the enemy until they get help from a conventional army like the American military battling the Japanese in Manila or the Allied forces commencing D-Day and other operations to force the Germans to retreat from France or alternetely the government decides its not worth spending money to occupy the territory (which he used for the FLN example)?

He adds with a comment asking the other person who sent the question that I remember going something along this lines.

What if the French decided to take Algeria for themselves and settle the country? They decided to start killing Algerians in every territory they send their own people from France into and rebuilt the new place for themselves with French infrastructure? You see for all the talk about all's fair in love and war, there are actual rules of engagements. You don't fight a people you seek to conquer and enslave the same way from stabilizing a country where most people don't really care about foreign occupation and just want to live their lives. In the same way an army's policies are completely different if the government's intention is to take new land for their citizens' benefits. Think the FLN will still be able to win if the French decides to goo hands offhandle Algeria as a new settler colony? While we are at it, people remember the 6 million Jew s who were killed in WWII. WHat people don't remember is the over 10 million Poles, Ukrainians, and other Slavs along with other unwanted peoples in the Eastern Front of World War 2. If the French decided to copy what the Nazis did in Eastern Europe, do you honestly believe Algeria would win? They only could operate the way they did because of French hesitancy to do genocides in the aftermath of WWII and fear of being associated with Nazi Germany's shadow.

THen he writes the other details I posted earlier about French Resistance being saved by the Allies, etc which I didn't write in this quote because I don't exactly remember how he said it. Even the quote above is just my recollection and not the exact thing he wrote but because I remembered it much better I did the best to my memory to rewrite it.

So I'm curious. What if the French became less restraint and decided to go more brutal in Algeria. If they take it to "wipe whole towns and cities level" or possibly even genocide? Would the FLN be unable to win the war? If avoiding outright genocide and preferring to avoid slaughtering whole towns and cities just not being white French and being "desert savages" as a racist French politician from the 19th century called them during the final years of complete conquest of Algeria , say they left it to Soviet style reprisals in the 70s and 80s in Afghanistan.

How would it all turn out in any of these 3 approaches? Would it lead to the complete destruction of the FLN and absolute victory for the French as Marc MacYoung claims? Or would none of this work and Algeria was bound to independence no matter what even if FLN and followers were systematically exterminated without any hesitation akin to Nazis and gassing entire populations they saw at subhumans? Is MacYoung wrong despite being so sure about his takes when he posted these resposnes in the martial arts discussion?

(Don’t speak Arabic so can’t use the pinned thread, mods feel free to move.)

Hi, like the title says, I'm working on an English-language song involving modern Arab identity. I’m looking for first-hand perspective about how you perceive Arab culture to better inform the lyrics.

The song describes a middle-aged non-Arab learning about Arab history for the first time. It is sung from this person's perspective as a thank-you (for realizing how Arab influences have shaped the world around them) and an apology (for not recognizing this influence sooner).

I’m hoping some of you would be comfortable answering some questions:

• What parts of Arab identity/culture are you most proud of?
• What parts do you find most beautiful or inspiring?
• What contributions to society from Arab history do you think have been most impactful? Most overlooked?
• What qualities do you feel describe a modern Arab today?

Obviously my intent is not to pander. No answer is wrong. Feel free to be as detailed or as brief as you’d like, and thanks for taking the time to contribute.