Strange Bed Fellows
Let me start by saying that organized religion and I parted ways many years ago and I usually refrain from interfering in “matters of faith.” The current hysteria around the location of the proposed Cordoba center is a bit of different matter. It’s only superficially about religion; it is actually about the core of [...]
Lens in, Help Out: NOLA’s High Resolution Disasters
Since this disastrous oil spill started I have been unable to stop thinking of just how much I love the crescent city and how sad it is to see it face yet another dark day in its very recent history. There is not a single day that passes that I do not browse through countless [...]
Catching Water in Motion
Over the last few years photography has become such a wonderful creative outlet for me. Nothing else makes me feel as relaxed and as full of playful and youthful joy. I love figuring out my way around the camera, shutter speeds, lighting, apertures, etc… I wish I had time to take a course or two… [...]
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The Face of Morocco’s First Amazigh TV Network Revealed
It’s a golden star engraved with what looks like synthetized versions of traditional Moroccan jewelry. Inside the star is a the digit eight corresponding to the number this network carries in Morocco’s roster of publicly funded TV channels. Below the star sit two versions of the channel’s name first one in Tifinagh alphabet. Read left [...]
Morocco Launches First Amazigh TV Channel
In a party organised yesterday in hotel Hassaan in Rabat, the Communication Minister and the government’s official spokesperson, Khalid Naciri, announced the launch of the Moroccan Amzigh TV. The launch of Amzigh TV is considered a very important event in the Moroccan audio-visual field. It is the eighth Moroccan TV channel that uses Tarifit, Tamazight, [...]
It Looks Like Tamazight in Morocco Will Finally Have its Own TV Network: About F*&*%ing Time
It’s delayed for a few days but not totally abandoned. The project of a new TV network to cater to the needs of Tamazight-speakers in Morocco seems to be almost on track for launch within days after being delayed from an earlier launch date of december 31st. This is a major step in correcting long [...]
anecdotes from the world of translation -2- ‘At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy.’
A TEENAGER who paid £90 to have his arm tattoed with Chinese characters got a shock when he learned the message read: ‘At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy.’ Hairdresser Lee Becks thought he had Mandarin for ‘Love, honour and obey’ etched into his skin. The 18-year-old found out that he [...]
anecdotes from the world of translation-1-
While doing some reading for a paper on translation, especially cases when translators put themselves at risk by tackling texts that are either too vulgar or too scared to translate, I came across an interesting story of one of Arabic’s most celebrated translators. Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (full name:أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي ’Abū Zayd Ḥunayn [...]
ALAOUI, MOROCCO HAS TURNED THE PAGE, AUDIENCE SAYS NO
ROME, NOVEMBER 18 – In the last 5 years the way of making film in Morocco has changed significantly: from the technology to the issues touched on, from the language used to nude scenes. It is a true revolution for the censorship army and the public not so inclined to ”put up with” not just [...]
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