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More gems from The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature edited by Robert Irwin: an ancient Arabic proverb: He who kisses the bum receives wind as his reward. From Kitab al-Hayawan by Abu Uthman ‘Amr ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz (776 – 868 AD): “… A book is a receptacle filled with knowledge, a container crammed with [...]
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English can be a wonderfully expressive language. But sometimes you wish your first language were some other tongue… Like Arabic – which has the word khadhuf, meaning “a she-ass… so fat that, if a pebble is thrown at her with the fingers, or the two fore fingers, or with the extremity of the thumb and [...]
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