الصفحة غير موجود

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الصفحة غير موجود

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Signs in Egypt

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قسم شرطة اثار القاهرة

تبارك - لتأجير السيارات

معمل سقارة - لتشخيص أمراض الدواجن

موقف إنتظار خاص بسيارات الميكروباص

شركة ابو الهول للنشر

يورك شير لطيور وأسماك وحيوانات الزينة

المنتزة رويال بلازا

شركة الحلوانى
للإستثمار العقاري

ممر دجلة

نت أسرع من الصاروخ!

إنترنت كافية
شبكات - صيانة
تدريب - طباعة
إدارة / مهندس : وائل عباس

إنترنت كافية

وزارة الدولة للبحث العلمي
 المعهد القومي لعلوم البحار والمصايد
فرع البحر المتوسط - الإسكندرية

مياه

شرطة الآثار

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Arabic Labels, Ads, and Signs

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دجاج كنتاكي

اكياس للفرن

المعجون المنظف

حليب مجفف كامل الدسم

حليب مكثف محلى

كوكا كولا لايت

اكوافينا

ليبتون

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The Game is Simple...

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لعبة التقليد : سيرة ذاتية متشابكة وسط الحرب

All of the vocabulary and phrases below come from the article linked above.  
I'm still working on the best ways to translate a few of the phrases in this one.





اللعبة بسيطة - إن كل اوامر القصف والهجوم كانت تحوم في الهواء - وكل طائر يمر عبر المحيط تدخل بياناته في هذا الشيء

The game is simple
All of the bombing and attack orders 
were floating in the air 
and every pilot that flies across the ocean 
enters his (flight) data in this thing.



بهذه السطور تُختصر حقيقة حرب عاشت فصولها البشرية كما عاشتها أوروبا وبريطانيا في صراعها الدامي ضد النازية إبان الحرب العالمية الثانية



  With these lines
 the reality of the human chapters,
as they were being lived out in Europe and Britain
during their bloody battle against the Nazis in WWII
are summed up.



 لندن تجد نفسه أرضا وبشرا وسماءً تحت رحمة رسائل مُشفرّة تصدرها آلة الحرب النازية فتقصف ساعة تشاء وتهاجم ساعة تشاء وتخرب وتدمر وسط هلع القادة الإنجلي وسعيهم للحاق بهذا الغول الذي دمّر بلادهم



London found itself, 
its lands, its people, and its skies
 at the mercy of encrypted messages
which were sent out by the Nazi war machine,
as it was bombing, attacking
devastating and destroying at will,
In the midst of this chaos, 
was the English command's quest 
to deal with this ghoul 
that was destroying their country.




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The Trash Guy

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I saw an Arabic quote today, tweeted by @ksa_twitt_sa, that I had never seen before.
Perhaps it sounds better in Arabic than in English, but its point is good in both languages:

قال الولد لأبيه: صاحب القمامة عند الباب.
 فرد الأب: يا بني نحن أصحاب القمامة،
 وهو صاحب النظافة جاء ليساعدنا

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"The boy said to his father, 'the trash guy is here.' 
The father replied, 'son, we are the trash-guys; 
he is the sanitation guy, coming to help us out."

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صاحب القمامة / أصحاب القمامة 

garbage man / men

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صاحب النظافة / أصحاب النظافة  

sanitation man / men

(sanitation worker)

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In translating this, I was reminded of a couple of good stories involving garbage collectors in Cairo that I had either listened to or read over the last few years. The first is a story by Liane Hansen that was broadcast on NPR back in 2009, about the "zebaleen" in Cairo, and how they are able to collect and successfully recycle more trash on Cairo's narrow streets than foreign contractors."

Another memorable article I was reminded of was Tales of the Trash, By Peter Hessler, published in The New Yorker last year. Tales of the Trash focuses on one of the zebaleen in particular, (Sayyid Ahmed) and the observations he is able to make about individuals on his route, and the extrapolations he is able to make about Egyptian society as a whole, based on things discovered in the trash.

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Sometimes a Simulation Center is Just a Simulation Center

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Yesterday, I was reading the article on the war veterans visiting The New Suez Canal, and I came across this Arabic phrase:

مركز المحاكاة

I had not seen this word before, and I was not sure exactly what type of a place it would be. If it had been spoken of in some kind of a military context, it would have made more sense to me. As it was, I couldn't imagine what a "simulation center" located on the project site for "The New Suez Canal," would actually look like.

So I tried to make the word fit my idea of what kind of a building a bunch of veterans would be visiting, if they were in America, to watch historical, documentary movies at the site of a big construction project: maybe a "visitors center," or an "educational center," or "information center..." perhaps a "historical center," or possibly even an "education and technology center" where visitors could watch videos and mock-up displays of how certain parts of the canal work.

I knew that these definitions didn't work well with the actual word being used, but they worked better than any place I could envision in my mind. Then, in frustration, I Googled the phrase... and guess what? I found out exactly what a simulation center at the Suez Canal looks like. 

Maritime Training and Simulation Center

I'm not sure that the one linked above is the exact same one that is discussed in the article, but it definitely looks more like what is referenced than the simple visitors' center that I had imagined.

Sometimes a simulation center is just a simulation center.

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20150213 Friday the 13th Arabic Words

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الحكومة الكندية تستأنف حكما قضائيا يسمح للمسلمات بإرتداء "النقاب" أثناء اداء قسم إكتساب الجنسية

The Arabic words & phrases below come from the article linked above

 

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الحكومة الكندية

The Canadian Government

 

تستأنف

is appealing

  

 

حكما قضائيا

a court ruling

 

 

يسمح للمسلمات بإرتداء النقاب

  allowing Muslim women to wear the niqab

 

 

أثناء اداء

during the oath

 

 

قسم إكتساب الجنسية

(of the Citizenship Department)

of citizenship. 

 

 

 قال رئيس الحكومة الكندية ستيفن هاربر

 Steven Harper, head of the Canadian government said

 

 

 الخميس

 on Thursday

 

 

 إن حكومته ستستأنف حكما قضائيا

 that his government will appeal the court ruling

 

 

 أبطل قرار الحكومة

 overturning the government's decision

 

 

 بمنع المسلمات من ارتداء البرقع او النقاب 

to ban wearing the burqah or the niqab

 

 

 أثناء أداءهن

(during their [f] oath)

 

 

 قسم إكتساب الجنسية الكندية

(to the citizenship department of Canada)

of citizenship.

 

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ووصف هاربر

 Harper described

 

 

 الحكم القضائي الذي صدر الأسبوع الماضي

the court ruling (which was issued last week

 

 

 عن المحكمة الإتحادية الكندية

by the Canadian federal court

 

 

 في الدعوى

 in a lawsuit / case

 

 

  التي أقامتها

 brought by 

 

 

 مهاجرة من باكستان

a Pakistani immigrant woman)

 

 

 بأنه

(that it is)

as

 

 

تحد للقيم الكندية

(a challenge to Canadian values.)

 

 

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 وقال رئيس الحكومة

 The head of the government said

 

 

أعتقد

I consider,

 

  وحسبي أن غالبية الكنديين يعتقدون

  and accordingly most Canadians consider

 

 

 إنه

 that it is 

 

 

من المهين

 an insult / offensive / outrageous

 

 

 والجارح جدا

 and very wounding / offensive

 

 

 أن يقوم شخص ما بإخفاء هويته

 that a person would (go about) hiding his identity

 

 

 في نفس اللحظة

 in the same moment

 

 

 التي يعبر فيها عن

 in which he is expressing 

 

 

 إلتزامه بالإنضمام إلى

 his commitment to become a part of

 

 

 الأسرة الكندية

the Canadian family.

 

 

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20150211 Today's Arabic Words

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From today's BBC News in Arabic:

بورما تلغي حقوق تصويت مسلمي الروهينغا عقب احتجاجات

 

The words and phrases below come from the above linked article.

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 مسلمي الروهينغا

Muslim Rohingya

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 وذلك في أعقاب احتجاجات ضد منحهم هذا الحق

in the wake of protests against the granting of this right

lit: (and that) in the wake (aftermath) of the protests against granting them this right

 

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البوذيين

 Buddhists

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خرجوا في مظاهرات احتجاجية

  (they) came out in protests

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رفضا لتمرير قانون

 rejecting the passage of a law

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يسمح للسكان المؤقتين . . .  بالتصويت في الانتخابات

  allowing the temporary residents . . . to vote in the elections

lit: it allows the temporary residents . . . to vote in the elections

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في بورما - المعروفة أيضا باسم ميانمار

 in Burma - also known as Myanmar

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لكن الحكومة لا تعبترهم مواطنين يتمتعون بكامل الحقوق

 but the government doesn't consider them to be citizens with full rights

lit: but the govt. doesn't consider them citizens enjoying all of the rights

 

 

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