I got an email yesterday from a Lebanese University student asking me for a recommendation letter. I thought at first the letter was for my brother since it said "Dear Dr" and he's a doctor but it was actually addressed to me. I replied and asked the student where he got my email from and he told me the secretary at the university gave him this address thinking that it was his professor's email. Of…

via Ousoul "Tallat" el PC. "Banchar" el Douleb. A7welo "Bil loj". Badde "Chalimoune" lal Pepsi. "Bandou2" hal sabe manno 3atil. Ma ba2a ma3e "massare" hal chaher. Kteer "Shob" el yom. Hayde el benet "Sharm****". "Balafo" bi hal le3be. We all use these terms but we probably never asked ourselves what they truly mean and where they came from. There are also tons of Lebanese terms that don't even exist in the Arabic language and that…