It can be pretty tough, thanks to the differences between how Semitic languages and basically every other language family work, but definitely worth trying to learn.

Related, in a way:

I saw The Good Place in my recommended shows so I am considering checking it out.

Yes. More people need to watch Ozark. I loved it. Insofar as you can love something that tense and violent, I mean.

Why not all three? Boy, girl and nongender?

Trump cultists were so desperate to defend his bizarre tweet that they decided it was somehow, for reasons unknown, Arabic... or Yiddish... or, even more impossibly, “Antediluvian.”

Ha ha, I have made that same exact mistake.

I did.

Sometimes I search for “covfefe Arabic” on Twitter just so I can have fun correcting Trump cultists who still think it’s an Arabic term. You just reminded me to do so again.

Not to mention that Teen Vogue has produced articles and videos about Syrian refugees that go well beyond “finding a boyfriend.” E.g., videos about getting used to life in America and dealing with misconceptions about their religion: Ask a Syrian Girl Video Series

As the Times Magazine points out, a story about the Syrian refugee crisis is actually about a Syrian teen finding a boyfriend

But such a nice little herb.

I made this recently and posted it on Twitter:

Am I seeing jocoque???

using it in a baklava is all I can think about

The case of the Christian child placed with practicing Muslim foster parents appears to be resolved with the child now being placed with her maternal grandmother, who is a non-practicing Muslim

This stuff right here is pretty dang good:

Ah yes, the “put the entire restaurant on a table” Arab breakfast. Tell yourself you won’t eat that much but then realize the fuul sure looks tasty...

I’m reminded of a place I used to live right next door to:

What do you catch if you combine that with this, I wonder: