excellent!
but don't drink the kool-aid on the persian/farsi thing.
at some level, it doesn't really matter.
and at other levels, it is entirely political.
don't tell him i said this, as you don't want to make him angry...
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dan Walsh wrote:
Submitted on October 01, 2010
Submitted by anonymous user: [72.194.110.124]
Submitted values are:
Your name: Alexander J
Your e-mail address: struggle@gmail.com
Subject: Translations
Category: General question or comment
Poster Upload: Message:
TRANSLATION in Progress - July 2010 - F - 86
The Persian text on the side reads "In hope of the victory of Palestine"
TRANSLATION in Progress - July 2010 - F - 87
The Persian text reads "Palestine is another Khorramshahr"
(Khorramshahr is an important Iranian city on the border with Iraq, which was razed and occupied by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war)
TRANSLATION in Progress - July 2010 - F - 88
The Persian text reads "Down with Israel"
TRANSLATION in Progress - July 2010 - F - 89
This one is misidentified as Persian; the text is actually Arabic. The Arabic text reads "O Muslims, unite, unite!"
This is a great project and I will be happy to help you identify and translate more posters if you like. I speak several languages including English, Persian, and Arabic. By the way, you have identified the language of some posters as "Farsi" but the proper name of the language is "Persian". "Farsi" is what we call Persian in Persian, like how "Deutsch" is what you call German in German.
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Rochelle Davis
Assistant Professor, Culture and Society
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University
http://ccas.georgetown.edu