Spoken Libyan Arabic by Eerik Dickinson

Spoken Libyan Arabic



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Spoken Libyan Arabic Eerik Dickinson ebook
ISBN: 1931546053, 9781931546058
Publisher: Sky Publishing
Page: 421
Format: pdf


In Al-Mahmoudi's private office I pilfered copies of secret US diplomatic cables concerning Libya, leaked in December 2010 by WikiLeaks, and seen by some as a catalyst for the Arab uprisings. From the Telegraph: On April 5 2011 he arrived for his second tour in Libya. People I've spoken to on the phone have since gone missing, picked up by Libyan intelligence, their fate - only God knows. Unfortunately, this will be done gunned down in a police station. Stevens, 52, was a work diplomat who spoke Arabic and French and had at present served two trips in Libya, especially running the workspace in Benghazi within revolt against Kadafi. Libya was the only Arabic-speaking country — maybe Iraq a few months ago — where the United States could have taken over protection without any political consequences. 2011 has already proven lie to the idea that the Arab world ever needed foreign help in order to achieve democracy; and now it could prove false the notion that the American administration and other Western governments ever cared about human rights or self determination. A Lonely Planet guidebook writer in Libya details her experiences filing reports from the Arab Spring. The cables referenced to the "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse who accompanied Gaddafi everywhere. Modern Standard Arabic is spoken by 95% of Libyans and is the most widely used language in Libya, although many different dialects are in use around the country. He spoke as Libya's front lines were multiplying, spreading along the coast like swollen, bleeding spider veins. Stevens was a career diplomat who spoke Arabic and French and had already served two tours in Libya, including running the office in Benghazi during the revolt against Gadhafi. But the papers spoke of how rapidly Libya had reintegrated itself with the western commercial world, after the country's emergence from isolation and sanctions.

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