A very exciting course is coming up with Bart Ehrman and Dr. Javad T Hashmi comparing the historical problems of the Bible and the Quran.

I'm especially curious to see the discussions,and what kinds of questions bible scholar would have about Qurnaic studies
ehrman.thrivecart.com/bibleandquran/

Some of the best, most humane, most informative accounts on this platform have the fewest followers. And some of the most toxically inhumane & disinformative have the most.

Emily’s account is small, but her heartfelt & thoughtful words are very much worth reading ⬇️

Is there any way to prevent my tweets from looking like this on mobile when I include things in Arabic or Hebrew script in the body of a paragraph in Roman characters? It’s not just that the text is aligned flush-right. The text is actually garbled into unreadability around the…

what world are these people living in? Israel isn’t on the brink of collapse and they almost certainly would win a limited regional war with any of their neighbors, including iran.

Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel are treated so horribly by the state. Meanwhile the Bedouin were literally driving into the most ravaged areas on October 7th and rescuing innocent Jewish civilians there. The Israeli state must begin to treat them like first-class citizens

Are we still doing this discourse?

Computers have gotten a lot better since the 80s

Including the computers we put in missiles

الان پول این موشکا از جیب کی رفت؟!

وزیر امور خارجه ایران: «۷۲ ساعت قبل از حمله به اسرائیل به کشورهای منطقه اطلاع دادیم». همزمان روسیه خواستار «خویشتنداری» طرف‌های درگیر شد.

گفت‌وگو با آرش عزیزی، مدرس ارشد علوم سیاسی در دانشگاه کلمسون از کارولینای جنوبی:

IRGC channels openly post screenshots of users in Iran who expressed worry about war, threatening them with persecution.

Just so you know how high the price of anti war expression of opinion in Iran is

#NoWar

Am I the only one who looks at arguments about how distinct something has to be to qualify as a phoneme, and thinks “man they’re just like rabbis arguing over the size of a kezayit”?

Our own Jojo writes poignantly about the difficulty in Israel of speaking out against this war, & the need for all of us who oppose endless occupation to create an alternative 'togetherness'.

Now more than ever, silence breakers need your support: drove.com/campaign/66057…

Firdawsi on his patrons Mansūr of Tōs and Sultān Mahmūd in Early New Persian

The text on screen reflects the bilabial and interdental fricatives, the long mid vowels, nasalization, and also morphosyntactic gemination, which is how final 'anceps vowels' like izāfa and the like…

Personally if I were Israel I’d see this moment of Jordanian/Saudi cooperation as a sign that my security would be vastly improved by giving Palestinians a state so my Arab neighbors could openly join hands with me against our common Iranian enemy, but what do I know

Netanyahu absolutely should not respond given how little damage Iran did, but he's a moron so he'll probably try to reescalate and create another crisis

The Perso-Arabic writing system was a huge step up from Pahlavi, which is really only for professional scribes and masochists. I suppose learning it could also work as an alternative to doing federal prison time though that might be a human rights violation. The movie Bird Box…

a) The only (mostly) complete translation of the Shahnama in English that I would recommend is Dick Davis’ version in mixed prose and verse. It effectively supersedes all previous versions. Its format is inspired by the Naqqali tradition of dramatic storytelling. It is accessible…