Mar 30, 2017
Arabic is a part of pretty much every Muslim's life, whether it’s
in the salaams they share with their family, in their name, or it’s
the language they speak at home. In this episode, Ahmed talks with
Kamelya Omayma Youssef and Amy D. about what it’s like to grow up
Arab versus growing up non-Arab, and the different ways of learning
the language—from the Qur’an to “lughat al-Net” (language of the
internet). And, they talk about how the sacred-sounding “wallahi”
(I swear to god) came to be used to describe a certain type of
young, Arab guy known as the “wallah bro." Then, Reeda Saleem and
Ahmed talk about people messing up their names, and this weird
thing that’s been happening online where people mispronounce the
hell out of of Arabic phrases. A staff gorilla.
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