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Shami and Levantine Dialect

Arabic:

Shoo bit'amal? (to m)

English:

What are you doing

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Translating

posted on: Nov 19, 2014

In ancient Baghdad, the greatest translator was Hunayn Ibn-Ishaq, a physician who translated all of Galen’s medical works and most of Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates.

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