Posted By
Najib
Feb 24, 2019 01:58
"Find something else to keep you busy". "Get Internet". Connect is trying to promote internet like they first did when TVs were invented, but if they're targeting big families living in distant villages with no internet, I am pretty sure Facebook is the right means to do so. Moreover, the families portrayed appear to be living in a small house in the middle of no where, and are probably busy making a living rather than…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 23, 2019 08:35
The Arabic Collections Online project has just made available 10,000 Arabic ebooks across 6,000 subjects for free. It was established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, and by major grants from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and Carnegie Corporation of New York. I searched for Lebanon in the list and one of the first books I stumbled upon was by Maurice Gemayel. Funnily enough, the 1954 speech he was giving,…
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Critiques
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