TWIA #33: the phrase every human has heard, raw lamb, and six words for ‘some’
This week: six Arabic words that all mean ‘some’ but […]
TWIA #32: the grammar trick that skips ‘of’, two rivers becoming one, and a snack you eat standing up
This week: the grammar trick that lets Arabic skip the […]
TWIA #31: pillars, a cliff-top city, and the sentence Arabic builds without a verb
Welcome back. This week: how Arabic builds sentences without ‘is’ […]
TWIA #30: tears, lies, con men, Erbil, and machboos
Welcome back. This week’s thread is what Arabs do with […]
TWIA #29: greed, going down, baby language, Egyptian comedy, and Dubai
This week: the demonstrative pronouns that help you point to […]
TWIA #28: envy, a haunted hotel room, and ful medames at dawn
This week: the pronoun endings that turn two words into […]
TWIA #27: death, Riyadh 1970, Sharjah, and mulukhiyya
This week: possessive suffixes that collapse two words into one, […]
TWIA #26: fire, revenge, jasmine, Damascus, and Tabbouleh
This week: personal pronouns that force you to be specific, […]
TWIA #25: hunger, faith, Mogadishu, and a dessert you’ll find everywhere
This week: useful Arabic words for time and place, a […]
TWIA #24: wisdom, connection, Egyptian Arabic, Cairo, and Eish Baladi
This week, we explore how Arabic expresses judgment and wisdom […]
TWIA #23: judging, revenge, heartbreak, Alexandria, and Couscous
This week, we explore how Arabic expresses decision and judgment […]
TWIA #22: writing, Finding Ola, Amr Diab on repeat, Beirut, and hummus
This week we explore one of the most fundamental roots […]
TWIA #21: exiting, in shaa’ Allah, The Alleys, Elissa on repeat, Kirkuk, and madfoon
This week, we explore a root that expresses the idea […]
TWIA #20: buying, the 5 nouns, Egyptian comedy, Awl Mara on repeat, Rabat, and layers of a Yemeni sweet
This week, we explore how Arabic expresses buying and exchange […]
TWIA #19: provision and rizq, dual vs plural, Umm Kulthum on repeat, Tangier winds, and a slice of basbousa
This week, we explore how Arabic speaks about provision and […]
TWIA #18: hearing, Qur’anic wisdom, Amr Diab on repeat, and falafel
This week, we explore how Arabic expresses hearing through a […]
TWIA #17: knowledge, moral dilemmas, Saudi drama, and a plate of mahshi
This week we dive into how Arabic talks about knowledge […]
TWIA #16: from fire to prices, judging others, Egyptian practice, and Marrakech
This week we look at how the root س ع ر […]
TWIA #15: laughter, sleepless ambition, high school life, and Algerian music
This week, Arabic moves from laughter encoded in a single […]
TWIA #14: patience, bias born from affection, Levantine drama, and Giza
This week, we’re diving into patience and self-reliance. We’ll see […]
TWIA #13: night, the fourth impossibility, satire, and Jeddah
This week we move into the night. Literally and linguistically. From […]