Ah, those deep fried Middle Eastern balls of vegan protein goodness! I don't know anyone who doesn't love them! Falafel is a highly popular street food made of chickpeas and fava beans (together or alone) with a mix of spices and herbs and onions, ground and...
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Google celebrates its 20 years today with a super cute video of different questions asked in different languages. Not a day goes by without me using Google to look something up, whether it was a word, an expression, an image, a piece of information, a recipe...
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I am no avid reader but there is one thing I know for sure: I love reading and listening to Maya Angelou's poetry. Today marks the late American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist's 90th birthday, on the occasion of which Google honored her with a...
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Google is celebrating late British writer Virginia Woolf with a doodle today. Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was a prominent English author most known for her modernism. In fact, she was considered one of the most prominent modernists of...
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Today Google remembers the late Assia Djebar (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015) with a doodle. Born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, the berber-speaking Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, whose father is a French teacher, chose Assia Djebar as her pen name for fear of her father's disapproval. In 1957, she published her...
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Award winning Arab architect Zaha Hadid, who died last year of a heart attack at the age of 65, is being honored in today's Google doodle. May 31 marks the anniversary of the day she won the Pritzker Architecture Award, becoming the first woman to do so....
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I believe that in order to succeed as a translator, you ought to truly love what you do. It is one of those jobs that require passion, otherwise you find yourself writing gibberish. Heck, even translators who love their job find themselves  sometimes not able...
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Hussein Amin Bicar (born on January 2nd, 1913 in Alexandria and deceased on November 16, 2002) was one of Egypt’s most outstanding artists of the 20th century. He graduated from the Cairo Higher School of Fine Arts in 1934, and then went on to spend over 60...
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Karimeh Abbud was a Palestinian professional photographer and artist who was born in 1893. She lived and worked in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the 20th century. She developed a passion for photography in the year 1913 in Bethlehem where she was living...
Karimeh Abbud was a Palestinia...
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Google honored Egyptian stage and screen actor Fouad el-Mohandes with a doodle today. Born on September 6, 1924 in Cairo, el-Mohandes knew stardom from the 1950s on to the early 2000s, having played, for the most part, comedy roles in dozens of theater, cinema, and TV...
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Ounsi el-Hajj (July 27, 1937 – February 18, 2014) was honored and celebrated today with an artistic doodle from Google. el-Hajj was a Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator. His father is journalist and translator Louis El Hage, and his mother is Marie Akl, from Kaitouli, Jezzine. He...
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March 21 marks World Poetry Day, first declared by UNESCO in 1999. As stated on Wikipedia, it is a day to promote reading, writing, publishing and teaching poetry. throughout the world. March 21 is also Arab poet Nizar Qabbani's birthday. This year, Google celebrates Qabbani's 93rd...
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