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Daesh? ISIS? Islamic State? Why what we call the Paris attackers matters.

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just one sound away from an Arabic word that suggests something that crushes, tramples, or sows discord, and is easy to lampoon. It would be as if the acronym for Islamic state were S.H.I.D., writes Alice Guthrie, former Arabic translator-in-residence at the Free Word Centre.

Date

Nov 25, 2015

Category:

U.S.

Source:

Google

ISIS, ISIL, Daesh: A primer on why the terrorist group's name keeps changing

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In a recent blog post, Alice Guthrie, an Arabic translator living in England, advocated for the use of Daesh earlier this year, and criticized the world's English-language media for doing a poor job explaining the term.

Date

Nov 18, 2015

Category:

World

Source:

Google

Daesh: The word ISIS doesn't want you to say — and why politicians are using ...

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As Arabic translator Alice Guthrie explained in an exhaustive Free Word article this year, acronyms are rarely used at all in Arabic, so any acronym already sounds ridiculous to many Arabic speakers.

Date

Nov 18, 2015

Category:

World

Source:

Google

Publications

Amazon

Madinah: City Stories from the Middle East (Comma City Stories)

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‘Madinah’ – the Arabic word for ‘city’ – may conjure labyrinthine streets and the hustle and bustle of the souq in Westerners’ minds, but for the inhabitants of the Middle East it is a much more mercurial thing, and one that’s changing today faster than ever.Here – in ten urban stories set across th...

Author

Nedim Gursel, Ala Hlehel, Yitzhak Laor, Gamal al-Ghitani, Nabil Sulayman, Joumana Haddad, Elias Farkouh, Yousef al-Mohaimeed, Hassan Blasim

Binding

Kindle Edition

Pages

174

Publisher

Comma Press

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