Jabal al-Lughat

In 1896, Cambridge bought a huge archive of documents from a synagogue in Cairo, starting as early as the 11th century: the Genizah collecti...

If Mohammed Hanif's account of growing up in Pakistan below doesn't ring any bells, then congratulations: you're from one of the...

The Digital South Asia Library at Chicago have just put online for the first time the gramophone recordings originally intended to supplemen...

Qatar is of course one of the most multicultural places on earth - citizens are only a small minority of the population, and even they inclu...

It should be unsurprising that a pidgin trade-Arabic has evolved in the Gulf, given the incredibly large proportion of the population from n...

I've been working on Sylheti - a highly divergent dialect of Bengali / language very closely related to Bengali spoken around Sylhet i...

For this week, I thought I'd share two curiously parallel reanalyses I've come across recently: Istanbul , apparently, derives from ...