#Eid

I learned a couple of new words from this fascinating “interactive” NY Times article by Abraham Z. Cooper, a pulmonary and critical care physician and associate professor of medicine (archived versions don’t seem to work, because of the interactivity, but…

Learn the difference between Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, including their meanings, traditions, prayers, charity and significance in Islam.

Russian лунатик [lunátik] and English lunatic are the faux-est of faux amis: the English word means only ‘madman’ and the Russian one only ‘sleepwalker’; I should really have called the post Veltman’s Sleepwalker, but that would have sounded weird to me,…

From Gulfnews RSS Feed: Eid Al Adha holidays announced for UAE public sector employees

From Gulfnews RSS Feed: Celebrating Eid Al Adha in the UAE: How prayers, feasts and family moments bring people together

Discover how the UAE marks Eid Al Adha, from udhiyah rules and zakat to modern slaughterhouses, online sacrifice bookings and community charity.

Eid Al Adha 2026 in UAE explained: Moon sighting, Arafat Day, confirmed dates and how residents can plan a six-day public holiday break.

Ah, in my younger days how I would have lusted for the Gold Medal of Philology! To get up on a stage before a glittering international crowd and give a carefully prepared speech humbly acknowledging that my ground-breaking work on the Indo-European…

I offer you a 25-second clip of a man telling a story. (I used TinyURL because the original URL would provide too much of a hint.) This is from an old LH post, so if you’ve been here longer than two decades you might have encountered it before!…

Steven Mithen (/maɪðən/), a British archaeologist seen in these parts a couple of years ago, published a book called The Language Puzzle: How we Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age that was recently reviewed in the LRB by Francis Gooding (Vol. 48 No.…

Decades ago I got a copy of the old Penguin edition of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš for $2.95, probably at the Strand (the currently available edition is selling for $61.54 at Amazon); the other day my eye lit on it and, in the mysterious way…