Foxy line! The idea of a “fox in a henhouse” in some medieval Arabic texts is replaced by the fox in the vineyard. In al-Mutanabbi’s infamous satire of Kafur, he likens Egypt’s leaders to vineyard-minders who slept while the foxes ran amok: نامَت نَواطيرُ مِصرٍ عَن ثَعالِبِها فَقَد بَشِمنَ وَما تَفنى العَناقيدُ

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Egyptian Arabic expression of the day النصيب بيجي في ثانية in-naṣīb biyīgi fi sanya ~"Your luck can change in a second."

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If only they had finished the Hejaz Railway ...

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I learned a new French word this morning

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#Arabic phrase of the day: انى قد طولت روحى عليك وانا اراك منعظما "I’ve been incredibly patient with you, and yet I still see you being an arrogant prick." (from Sin. ar. 461, fol. 4v:12)

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