203. Shami – meaning "from Syria or Damascus" ...

I am offended by the exploitation by Sen. Clinton’s campaign, the neo-cons and Republicans of Sen. Barack Obama’s race, religion and Arabic names. Sen. Obama should be as proud of having Hussein as ...

Not long ago, I sent a short list of Arabic names to a non-Arab friend with no explanation. I asked him to send me back an audio recording where he read them all back to me, to the best of his ability ...

The words El, Elah, Elohei and Elohim are pre Abrahamic west Semitic generic terms for a God or for many Gods. In these various forms they appear almost 3,000 times in the Hebrew Bible. But for Jews ...

CAIRO — Three Mideast countries have become the first to get Internet addresses entirely in non-Latin characters. Domain names in Arabic for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were added ...

Since terrorism and Iraq began to dominate our coverage, The Atlantic has crammed many Arabic names and phrases into our text, and some have not gone gently. The simplest cases demand fussiness and ...

NEW YORK — Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith are often investigated and ...

Lawmakers in Tajikistan have voted to ban Arabic-sounding “foreign” names as well as marriages between first cousins, approving legislation to restrict two common practices that have irked the ...

Al-Qaida spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn released a video last Sunday in which he called President Obama a “treacherous, bloodthirsty, and narrow-minded American war president” of a “declining and ...