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The Cat's Ear - ودن القطة

Salam! I'm Yuliya, an Arabic teacher based in Cairo, deeply and forever in ❤️ with Arabic culture and Arabic language
I graduated from Moscow State University in 2013. I fluently speak Fusha and Egyptian Arabic. I teach Arabic to women in small groups
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03.04.202510:01
Yesterday we reached 400 posts :)

LITERATURE

🔸Jackals and Arabic literature

🔸Quotes from the novel Ya Maryam by Iraqi writer Sinan Antoon here, here

🔸Algerian writer Waciny Laredj and his thoughts on writing in Arabic

My reviews:

🔸 What Zeina Saw and What She Didn't See by a Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif in Arabic and English

🔸 Lavender by Sinan Antoon in Arabic and English

🔸 The Stolen Novel by Hassan Kamal in Arabic and English

PLACES

🔸 Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo: here, here and here

🔸Trip to Moses' Mountain in Sinai (Egypt) here, here and here and my impressions of Dahab

🔸Ibn Tulun Mosque (Cairo) - pics

CULTURE

🔸About pollination of palm trees and one Hadith 🙈

🔸Teapots here

🔸How Arabs quarrel in different countries

🔸Meanings of the word خلوة

🔸Maqam and tradition of vising graves

🔸 Mashrabiyya and Mashrafiyya

🔸Arab mentality: camels, Duas, promises

COUNTRIES

🔸Iraq: potatoes, Shorja market, The Mother of Pigs Island and Bookshops street in Baghdad, breakfast, oven, unique Iraqi grammar, pastry, tahini, a front yard, jasmine, Iraqi village of oranges, baklava, Iraqi vocab in the novel Lavender by Sinan Antoon, carpets, spinner toys, cars related, window screens here and here

🔸Lebanon: bread, a veil of Druze women, mate and Druze, "Lebanese princesses", posts about Druze here, here and here, a dish for new moms, heaters

🔸Egypt: professions of knives sharpener and Ramadan drummer, TV ads, Ramadan here, here, Violent Egyptian food, Egyptian children

LANGUAGE

🔸 Proverbs about the Egyptian months Kayak, Tuba and Amshir and other proverb (example)

🔸All you wanted and didn't want to know about goats in Arabic

🔸 Fireflies in Fusha. It's my second post about fireflies... 

🔸Amusement park vocabulary

🔸The origins of the words theatre, comma and comma part 2, feminism, برمته, train in Arabic

🔸About punctuation and an Arabic sentence here, here, here

🔸 Phrases يا ساتر here and here and يا سلام here and here

🔸Good morning from Pre-Islamic times and poetry

🔸Difference between أتى and جاء

🔸Root نهل here and here

🔸The word مطرح

HISTORY

🔸Tulunids and their capital
🔸Historical legends about lions and a mercury pond

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It's been fun 3 months. I've got back to reading and read 8 books, 6 of them in Arabic. During Ramadan I did nothing because of health issues... I am so grateful to myself for writing these posts months ago and staying in bed during Ramadan.

And also I am very grateful to you for your reading, comments, likes. It hugely helps me to continue doing it.

Other digests under #digest
31.03.202501:03
Sighting of the Crescent in Egypt 🌙

Islamic Calendar is the lunar calendar, and every year it causes some stress and attention in Ramadan. "Will we start fasting today or the next day?" and so on, and so forth. The same happens in the end of Ramadan, when it's time to celebrate Eid.

So, the astrologists need to see the crescent (رُؤية الهِلال) and then Dar al-Ifta' (دار الإفْتاء, Islamic advisory body) announces the first day of the month that follows Ramadan: Shawwal.

This Saturday the crescent created a buzz in Egypt: Saudi Arabia saw the crescent, but Egyptian Dar al-Ifta announced that Eid will be on Monday, not on Sunday, so Egyptians fasted an additional day in comparison to Saudis.

On Saturday Egyptian housewives said with disappointment "أَنَا قَفِّلْت المَطْبَخ خَلَاص" (I've already closed the kitchen, Egyptian Arabic), meaning that she was done with cooking for iftars and was going to eat take away food in Eid, but in the end they had to cook one more time.

In Eid Egyptians traditionally eat فِسِيخ (fermented fish that smells like trash), رِنْجَة (herring) and different types of cookies. Those, who don't like feseekh, eat كُشَرِي (boiled pasta, rice, lentils, chickpeas with tomato sauce and crispy onion).

We always go in Eid to relatives and eat just normal Egyptian food 😅 But cookies are a must 💕

#very_egyptian
#celebrations
#what_Egyptians_eat
#religions
#islam
Sorry for trembling hands, I was afraid that he will see me and will start shouting because of photos 😅

This is مِسَحَّرَاتِي, he walks in our neighborhood three times a day: before and after iftar, to collect money for his services, and at night, a couple of hours before the fasting starts.

Mesahharati is derived from the word سُحُور, a morning meal before fast. Btw, there is also the word سَحُور, with fatha, it means the food that is eaten during suhur.

#celebrations
#religions
#egyptian_professions
29.03.202523:23
Expanding your understanding of Arabic. Footnotes

I remember very well how once we had a test in my university. We were allowed to use dictionaries. It was in the age of books, so we used a paper book, not a digital dictionary.

In my test I wrote a plural form of مَدِينَة that I saw in a dictionary: مَدَائِن. My professor gently corrected it to مُدُن.

I don't know why I remember this exact "mistake" so well. Maybe because it was in a dictionary and I felt that I was right?

Practice proved to me that indeed Arabs use form مُدُن for plural all the time. I have seen this form hundreds of times, I don't even remember how many. Maybe even thousands. 

Why did I remember it?

Because when I was reading The 1001 Nights, I saw there مَدَائِن:

فطرأت لي سفرة إلى بعض المدائن


I suddenly had to travel to some cities

(The Story of The First Sheikh from The Story of the Merchant with Ifrit)

It looks like مَدَائِن indeed was used in the Past, but I am grateful to my professor for showing me the most popular form nowadays 🌹

You know, now, after 15 years of learning Arabic I suddenly go back to contemplating basic words I learned years ago, understanding them deeper and better.

#personal
Wooden slippers

In Fusha they are witten as قَبْقَاب, and in Egyptian Arabic – قُبْقَاب (where ء = ق). The plural is قباقيب.

In Egypt, you’ll mostly see these wooden slippers in mosques, particularly in the bathrooms for ablution. They’re commonly used there because they help prevent getting wet or slipping in such wet environments.

It’s believed that in Egypt these slippers date back to Fatimid times (10th–12th centuries). In fact, Shajar al-Durr, a ruler of Egypt in the 13th century, was reportedly beaten to death with قباقيب!

#what_Egyptians_wear
#history
Egyptian Film نهر الحب (The River of Love, 1960)

🔸A beautifully made black and white film starred Omar Sharif, one of the most famous internationally Egyptian actors with his roles in Hollywood films, and Faten Hamama, another famous actress and Omar Sharif's wife.

🔸The story of the film is based on the novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, but in Egyptian realities. No need to tell the plot, as it's very similar to the book. A heartbreaking story of love, reason, sins, a mother and her son.

🔸The film has its Egyptian atmosphere: the pharaonic legend of the Nile being the river of love, that was formed by tears of the goddess Isis towards her love Osiris, Egyptian war with Israel in 1948.

🔸Interesting fact: the character of Omar Sharif Khaled was fond of horse races. Horse racing was a hobby of Omar Sharif as well.

🔸I was very happy to see يَشْمَك veil, worn by one of the characters in the film.

🔸One of the nice touches was the voice of the narrator in Fusha 💕

#crosscultural
#Egyptian_cinema
01.04.202509:05
Egyptian finger play

Although most of my students really want to know something like this in Fusha, I have never seen anything like this in Fusha, because Arab mothers don't speak it with their kids 🤷

In Egyptian dialect they have many different games based only on speaking. One of them is a finger play آدِي البَيْضَة (this one is the egg).

A mother tells a story of each finger:
آدِي البَيْضَة
This one is the egg
آدي اللي سَلَقْهَا
This one is the one that boiled it
آدِي اللي قَشَّرْهَا
This one is the one that peeled it
آدِي اللي أَكَلْهَا
This one is the one that ate it

When the adult arrives at the last finger, he says:

وآدِي اللي قَال هَات حِتَّة
And this one is the one who said "give me one piece"

... and with fast movement of his hand starts tickling the child and saying kirikirikirikiri

The phrases can differ depending on the person.

In this scene the soldier is asked to hold a pistol with an index finger and a thumb. It turns out that he doesn't know the names of fingers, so he starts performing آدي البيضة to his general (or whatever is his military rank).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yLnK_jBB-BY&pp=ygUT2KfYr9mKINin2YTYqNmK2LbYqQ%3D%3D

#Egyptian_childhood
27.03.202513:49
I adore these history accounts that are close to legends and stories of 1001 Nights. Al-Maqrizi is also a pure pleasure to read. Although he was a historian, he was also a writer, because the time dictated its literary tastes.

Khumarawaih and the Mercury Pond

Khumarawaih had trouble sleeping. Understandably so, as he feared assassination and surrounded himself with guards and lions for protection.

Seeking relief, he confided in his doctor, who recommended massage as a way to relax. However, Khumarawaih disliked the idea of anyone touching his body, suspecting bad intentions. Instead, the doctor advised him to create a pond filled with mercury as a way to cure insomnia.

According to Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, Khumarawaih followed this advice and slept on a floating mattress in a 25-meter by 25-meter mercury pond under the moonlight.

Russian historian Alexei Krol investigated whether such a mercury pond could have existed. He calculated that filling the pond would require 4,250 tons of mercury. However, the highest recorded mercury production in history was in 1941, when only 2,830 tons were mined. Krol also pointed out that Arabic doctors were well aware of mercury's toxicity and would not have recommended it as a remedy for insomnia. The only known medicinal use of mercury in Arab traditions was as a distilled mixture with rose water to treat lice and nits. Anyways, he supposes that al-Maqrizi was wrong in his calculations and the pond was smaller, so it was possible, although very difficult, to transport 112 tons of mercury from Spanish city Almaden to Khumarawaih's palace in al-Qatai' (Modern Cairo). I highly recommend to read Krol's research, it's mentioned in the sources below (it's available in English).

Sadly, Khumarawaih's fate unfolded as he feared. He was assassinated by one of his servants, who was involved in an affair with Khumarawaih's wife. To protect himself, the servant ultimately decided to kill the ruler.

Sources:
🔸 خريدة القاهرة لحامد محمد حامد
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الخطط للمقريزي
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Floating on Mercury in the Moonlight: "Birkat az-Zi'baq" in the Palace of Khumarawaih in al-Qatai' by Alexei A. Krol

#cairo_streets
#legends
#history
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