Any One From The Mid East? Options

Assalamu alaikum,
hey I was wondering if I'm the only mid-eastern on this forum. I was born and raised in the States, but I'm originally Syrian. Anyone from bellad al-sham (syria, lebenon, jordan, palestine, or iraq)?

Yes - Do i get cookies?

Assalamu alaikum,

yay another middle-easterner...cool.

no cookie sorry.

Hey where are you from? do you speak Arabic?

This is not a Martial site kiddo.

Kelly thats mean!(still funny though)

>> from the maghrib(West as in north africa, not sunset people)

This is not a Martial site kiddo.

well excuse me for being friendly.

I thought this was the regional section, just wanted to represent my mid-eastern side.

This is not a Martial site kiddo.

well excuse me for being friendly.

I thought this was the regional section, just wanted to represent my mid-eastern side.

Thats typical KJ for you. Don't take it personal really. She is upset cause you didn't bring milk or cookies.

This is not a Martial site kiddo.

well excuse me for being friendly.

I thought this was the regional section, just wanted to represent my mid-eastern side.

Your excused. (JK)

Welcome to the forum. : )

This post has been edited by kellyjaz: Aug 1 2008, 09:18 AM

Assalamu alaikum,

Moroccan huh? have you been there before? I have 2 summers ago.

I understand the Moroccan accent really well, and not many Arabs can (cuz its so...diff). Laa bass? Be kheir?

Anyone from bellad ash-sham? doesn't seem like it. This forum seems like it has an India/Bengali/paki majority. dunno...maybe I'm wrong.

Assalamu alaikum,

Moroccan huh? have you been there before? I have 2 summers ago.

I understand the Moroccan accent really well, and not many Arabs can (cuz its so...diff). Laa bass? Be kheir?

Anyone from bellad ash-sham? doesn't seem like it. This forum seems like it has an India/Bengali/paki majority. dunno...maybe I'm wrong.

Wrong maghrib, bladiassudan.

ALmaghrib la almaghrib....confusing I know. Its like, america calling itself america...

Don't you hate it when countries name themselves after regions?

Assalamu alaikum,

Moroccan huh? have you been there before? I have 2 summers ago.

I understand the Moroccan accent really well, and not many Arabs can (cuz its so...diff). Laa bass? Be kheir?

Anyone from bellad ash-sham? doesn't seem like it. This forum seems like it has an India/Bengali/paki majority. dunno...maybe I'm wrong.

Wrong maghrib, bladiassudan.

ALmaghrib la almaghrib....confusing I know. Its like, america calling itself america...

Don't you hate it when countries name themselves after regions?

Technically we are the United States of America .

Assalamu alaikum,

Oh I see...yeah that is confusing, especially because 'Al-maghrib' is what we call Morocco in Arabic.

Ok Sudan, cool. In that case, you guys speak normal Arabic, you don't dismantle it like the Moroccans do. I think Sudanis have an accent very similar to Masri people right? Don't they say: izayik? (how are you)...well at least the Sudanis I know do.

Yup tru... countries naming after regions....but bellad ash-sham was what the region (syria, jordan, lebanon, iraq, pali) was called during the time of the prophet , and sometimes when history refers to ash-sham, people think its talking about syria only since the capital of syria is Damascus, which Syrians call 'sham'...yeah pretty confusing.

Technically we are the United States of America .

What state are you from?

This post has been edited by Silly Billy: Aug 3 2008, 04:05 PM

Reason for edit: Double Posted

FL!!!!! REP!!

Assalamu alaikum,

Oh I see...yeah that is confusing, especially because 'Al-maghrib' is what we call Morocco in Arabic.

Ok Sudan, cool. In that case, you guys speak normal Arabic, you don't dismantle it like the Moroccans do. I think Sudanis have an accent very similar to Masri people right? Don't they say: izayik? (how are you)...well at least the Sudanis I know do.

Yup tru... countries naming after regions....but bellad ash-sham was what the region (syria, jordan, lebanon, iraq, pali) was called during the time of the prophet , and sometimes when history refers to ash-sham, people think its talking about syria only since the capital of syria is Damascus, which Syrians call 'sham'...yeah pretty confusing.

Sudan is taken from bilad as sudan which meant the more "ethnic" part of muslim africa, from niageria to kenya.


Its like 3 countries mashed into one.

Sudani 3arabic is like masri 3arabic, but with a lot more of the ancient nubian influence.

Some say Izayik while others(like myself), just butcher kayfalhalak, into kayfkayf or Kayfhal?

Assalamu alaikum,

kayfkayf...never heard that one before but yeah I heard people say kayfhal. We say: keefak, shlownak, or keef haalak? Do you understand the Syrian accent? I think most people do... I think the most widely understood accent amongst Arabs is Masri because of the famous plays and movies by masri actors.

Hey which Arabic accent do you think is the worst? For me its Moroccan (I don't think that language even qualifies as Arabic, too much french is mixed in), sounds so yucky, you know?

YAY FL!!!!

Assalamu alaikum,

Whats your favorite Arabic food?


Mine is yabraa...which is also called Waraq dawali , its green leaves stuffed with rice and ground beef and cooked...yum, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

This post has been edited by Silly Billy: Aug 5 2008, 03:56 PM

Reason for edit: Double Post

Salaam sis aras...let me introduce you to an old friend of mine, she's one of the oldest members here...she's arab also, Amatullah. She'll be posting shortly to contribute to this thread =)

This post has been edited by bin't Zayd: Aug 5 2008, 06:40 PM

Assalaamu 'Alaykum

Thanks for the intro sis Shaz .

SubhaanAllah, it's been a long time since I've been here!

Anyway sis aras, marhaba, I'm not from Bilaad Al-Shaam but I'm from Al-Khaleej (the Gulf) - As-Su3diyyah (Saudi Arabia) to be exact.

I agree, the Moroccan accent is SO hard to understand. Often on Arab news channels they even add subtitles to Moroccan speech because it's very hard to understand. SubhanAllah though, the world would be a boring place if there weren't people of different backgrounds, languages and dialects

Mine is yabraa...which is also called Waraq dawali , its green leaves stuffed with rice and ground beef and cooked...yum, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Ooh, warag 3inab! That's what we call it. I love it, only we don't add beef, it's just rice and tomato for us. I like mahshi (dolma I think shamiyyeen call it) in general. Mostly koosa (courgette) and kurum (cabbage) mahshi.
All this talk of food is making me hungry .

All this talk of food is making me hungry .

Doesn't it all the time

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,

Ahlan ukhti! so happy to meet a middle-eastern sis on this forum! Keefik?

Yeah, we do two kinds of Waraq 3inab; one with beef and rice which we call yabra2 (I know its weird only syrians call it that), and one that's kind of sour and it doesn't have meat it has tomatoes, that we call yalunji...lol yeah weird name also. I love both. I loooovvve koosa! Its def one of my faves!

Oh do you know kibbeh? Thats a classic Syrian dish...so hard to make, but worth all the work.

Man, you're so lucky to be in Saudi...my dream is to go to Makka and Medina...inshaAllah ya rab. SubhanaAllah everyone who goes to Medina says that they find it extrememly difficult to leave the place, like there is some kind of bond that happens subhanAllah.

Hey sis do you watch any of the Syrian mussalsalat (series)? You gotta love em, Syrians are good actors.

Assalaamu 'Alaykum

Alhamdulillah tamaam

Oh yeah, that's the one we do...yalunji, lol never heard the word before.

Yep, I know kibbeh! Only we call it kubbah. The minced meat with the sanawbar one. It's good. I've heard there's a raw kubbah too?

Alhamdulillah sis.
I've only been to Madinah once, and subhanAllah it's true what people say. I couldn't help crying when we had to leave, it was really sad. SubhaanAllah Madinah is different. And how could it not be, being the home of the Ansaar and where our beloved Prophet PBUH was first welcomed.
Insha'Allah you get the opportunity to visit both Makkah and Madinah soon!

Haha, well I'm generally not much of a mutaabi3ah of musalsalaat. I remember last year though when Baab Al-Haara was being aired and everyone was going on about it. I wish I'd watched it after, lol.