Alexander Key
@AlexanderMKey
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philologist
Palo Alto, CA
Joined November 2012
Mohsen Zakeri, 1954-2024. A great philologist and a generous colleague, perhaps the first scholar to seriously investigate the premodern Persian-Arabic literary-historical interface in a series of fundamental articles on translation, aphorisms, and history
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"The translation itself was magisterially prepared by Anna Bailey Galietti, translator extraordinaire. Anna was an ideal choice as a formidable Francophile and a fellow scholar of early Islam." ๐๐๐๐
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ุงุดุชูุฑ ุงุจู ุชูู
ูุฉ ุจุฅููุงุฑู ููููุน #ุงูู
ุฌุงุฒ ูู ุงููุบุฉุ ุจูุฏ ุฃู ุงููุธุฑุฉ ุงููุงุญุตุฉ ูุขุฑุงุฆู ูู ุงูู
ูุถูุน ุชูุดู ุนู ุชุจุตูุฑ ููุณูู ูู ู
ูุงุฑุจุชู ูุซูุงุฆูุฉ #ุงูุญูููุฉ_ูุงูู
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ุนุงุฑุถูู ูู ุณูุก ุชุตูุฑูู
ูุฑุฃูู ุนูู ุฃูู ู
ุฌุฑุฏ ุฅููุงุฑ ุชุนุณูู ููููุน ุงูู
ุฌุงุฒ https://t.co/hiEA05D2yC
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Radiocarbon dating confirms fake "Hunayn b. Ishaq" signature at the University of Tehran. So ... not just @Stanford โบ๏ธ https://t.co/ThyVhkSJ99 by Aghaei, Bahrololoumi, Hajdas, Jafarian, Kordavani, Marx
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ููุธุฑ ูููุจ ุญูุงููู ูุชุญุณูุฑ... ูุฐุฑู ุฏู
ุนุฉ ูุชุนุจูุฑ Signup link: https://t.co/5HXX9V6mGk #ูุง_ุชุตุงูุญ #ุฃู
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This should be the official symbol of the diptote in Arabic
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Schopenhauer to Houellebecq is literally from the sublime to the ridiculous
BRB, going to upload the collected works of Plato, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Houellebecq, and Agamben into an AI and watch it burst into tears.
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This is how far Diyab had to travel in order to write this book, but all you have to do is click here to get a copy: https://t.co/LnVen0qGHr
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https://t.co/7YMtpixKns The Shidyaq translation will last for centuries. Unsurpassable!
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A digital memorial for translator and independent scholar Humphrey Davies. If you would like to add a reminiscence, video, or photo, email info@arablit. Rana Issa: โWhat Distinguished Humphreโฆ
Beautiful tribute to Humphrey by @nanaasfour. โTo date, I have been fortunate enough to be able to consult almost all the living authors whose works I have translated,โ he said, adding, โI have questions for the dead, too, when I meet them.โ https://t.co/kJAOGs8dYm
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Etel Adnan's 1977 covers for Shu'un Filistiniyya (Palestinian Affairs), the journal of the PLO Research Center in Beirut (edited at that time by Mahmoud Darwish and Elias Khoury).
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I was translating these lines of al-Khansa when I heard about Etel. Let them be for her. Let it be too much.
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Interview with AJ Naddaf forย โUntranslatableโ - Alexander Key: On Domesticating Al-Jurjani 110% https://t.co/6Z7Hrris0K
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"It is only European history & romantic nationalism & borders & the post-Westphalian state that creates the assumption that there is failure in translation. That when you take something from one country to another, you lose some essence."
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ุฎูุตูู ูุง ุจุฑูุทุงููุง ู
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ูุฑูุ ูุงู ุฑูุชุดุงุฑุฏ ู
ู ุฃูุทู ุงูุฃุตุฏูุงุก "I never expected to have to do a hunger strike twice. It is not a normal act. It seems extraordinary the need to adopt the same tactics to persuade [the UK] government.โ https://t.co/2Kxmfvz83S
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Richard Ratcliffe seeks to persuade Foreign Office to do more to secure wifeโs release from prison in Iran
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ุด ุนุงุฑูุ ๐ง๐คฏ๐ณ๐ฅณ
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