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New word added to Oxford Dictionary: Mubarak (v.): To stick something, or to glue something

Feb 10 2011
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[Circulating in the Egyptian Public Space] New word added to Oxford Dictionary:  Mubarak (v.): To stick something, or to glue something.  Example: “I will punch you and mubarak you to the wall”; or “You can mubarak the pieces to hold them together”.     لوحات طريفة يحملها المعتصمون في ميدان التحرير  إمشي بقى إيدي وجعتني! إمشي بقى مراتي وحشتني! إمشي بقى عايز أروح أحلق! إمشي بقى عايز أدخل الحمام!   أحد المعتصمين وقف وقد خلع ...

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Hala Kamal

 

Hala Kamal is an Assistant Professor of English literature at Cairo University.

[I]t still seems acceptable to represent the Arab Gulf, in ways no longer so acceptable in the case of other postcolonies, ahistorically and apolitically, as a region ... exempt from the structural constraints of empire and capital.
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