la population du khuzestân se compose de deux grands ensembles ethniques : persan à l’est et arabe à l’ouest. les arabophones forment une des rares communautés ethnolinguistiques dont le parler ne fait pas partie de la famille des langues iraniennes. dans tous les cas, le persan “standard” joue le rôle de langue véhiculaire. le déplacement des groupes “instables” - lors, baxtiâri, et arabes - a...

Although the earliest Turkisms that entered Arabic go back to 9th century – when Arabs began establishing regular contact with speakers of Turkic languages a significant number Turkish loans in both written and spoken only date from time Ottoman Empire, which course its expansion conquered for centuries ruled large part Arab world. This paper aims examine words origin found dialects Egypt parts...

In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing Cavafy's knowledge Arabic, demonstrates affinities solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress witnessed choice...

This essay will attempt a broad outline of the strategies of State employed in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The nomadic population there is organized into kinship groups, or corporated groups called qabâ'il (sing. qabîla) or ‘tribes.’ —even if the ‘tribe’ is not a ‘total society’, but —as Emanuel Marx suggest (in this volume)—“it is merely one of a variety of organizations in which the n...