“Bengali has six grammatical cases, and the fourth case is just for an unconditional present that you don't have to give back. This is what I hope all our othertongues will be one day: presents that are freely given and received.”

“Abortion opponents are forging competing international norms. . .A coalition of states spearheaded by Belarus, Egypt and Qatar formed the Group of the Friends of the Family, which advocates at the U.N. for the family as the ‘natural and fundamental group unit of society.’”

“Over the last several years, almost every major US outlet has scaled back its presence or pulled out of the country: The Times, which once had over a hundred people in its Baghdad office, has not had a bureau chief there for most of the year.”

#النساء في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا أكثر إقبالا من #الرجال على القول إن #المرأة التي تتزوج أجنبيا يجب أن يكون بوسعها نقل جنسيتها إلى #الأطفال. الآراء حول هذه المسألة لا تختلف بين النساء المتزوجات وغير المتزوجات. المزيد في أحدث رسومنا البيانية: bit.ly/3JZjEtI

“While Afrilingual currently has a small customer base of legal nonprofits, medical groups and others, its main goal is to win a fraction of the city’s growing bill for interpreters and translators — over $35.3 million last year — which mostly goes to private contractors.”

My latest on extended-hours child care in New York City for Columbia Journalism School Columbia News Service: columbianewsservice.com/2023/12/11/ext…

This morning, CJS celebrated the Class of 2024 at Journalism Day — highlighting professional prizes, student award winners and those graduating with honors. "As a peer, I welcome to you to our ranks," said Caitlin Dickerson (@itscaitlinhd) of The Atlantic in the Pringle Lecture.

“But then isn’t translation precisely an infinite series of choices?”

AOC team made a flyer in Arabic Not only are the letters not connected (like they should be), they’re also arranged backwards

Wrote this for the University of Wisconsin Center for Journalism Ethics. "Referring to Arabic words without offering an accompanying translation is a lazy method employed by journalists intent on setting a scene without actually interrogating it." ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/04/rep…

Christ is still in the Rubble. Munther Isaac full Christmas message - A Vigil of Sumud. From Bethlehem to the world

Thrilled to report the sale of what promises to be an amazing book: Kaitlyn Hashem's A BROKEN PLURAL: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S TWO-CENTURY ENCOUNTER WITH THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, to Bloomsbury U.S. Dystel, Goderich & Bourret

Vv excited about this book!

On this day in 1963, THE BELL JAR was published. This is my first Faber edition, published under her real name, in 1966. #sylviaplath #thebelljar

Still in #Syria searching for my father. Thousands of families are searching for loved ones, desperate for any piece of information. For years, the Assad regime denied our pain, denied our demands, and gaslit us about their arrests. We won’t be silent. We demand the full truth

Breaking: This is Caesar, the Syrian who smuggled thousnds of photos of people Assad killed under torture. He was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department in Military Police in Damascus, and whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act named after. Laura Rozen Garance Le Caisne

What a historical moment. Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He's from Daraa.

.Foreign Affairs published "Who Is to Blame for the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza?" by Israeli Ambassador Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter They did absolutely no fact checking The following 🧵from Alex Smith Alexander Smith, who resigned from USAID over Gaza, details the errors