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How Much Do YOU Know About Arabs?
By Sally Bishai (03/11/06)
As my faithful readers and friends know, I talk about Coptic issues more often than any other thing.
But we are not the only people in the Arabic-speaking world!
Hence, I have put together a little quiz to see how much you—yes you!—know about the “Middle East.” (I know, I know, horrible and Eurocentric name..)
Go through and see how you do, and no peeking at the answers till you’re 100% finished!
1. All Arabs are Muslim.
A. True
B. False
C. They SHOULD be
D. What was the question, again?
2. Being COPTIC is:
A. An ethnicity
B. A religion
C. An ethnicity, a nationality and a religion
D. A and B
3. All Muslims are Arab:
A. True, since that's where Islam began
B. True, since the Qur'an is in Arabic
C. False, because Islam is the most subscribed-to religion on earth
D. False
4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Arabic and Aramaic are sibling languages
B. Arabic and Hebrew are children of the Aramaic language
C. Jesus spoke Aramaic
D. Aramaic is still spoken in some ethnic/religious circles
5. Egypt's president is currently:
A. Gamal Mubarak
B. Botros Botros Ghaly
C. Yusef Ghaly
D. Hosni Mubarak
6. All of the following EXCEPT ONE refer to the various cloth coverings that Muslim women wear.. Which word is NOT correct?
A. Burqa
B. Chador
C. Couvre
D. Higab
7. "Chaldean" refers to:
A. A dialect of the Arabic language
B. An Iraqi Christian
C. One of the 22 Arab nations
D. A clergyman of the Coptic Orthodox Church
8. There is a movement in Egypt called "Kefaya".. This word is:
A. Chaldean for "Vote"
B. Arabic for "Please"
C. Arabic for "Peace"
D. Arabic for "Enough"
9. Which of the following singers does NOT sing in Arabic?
A. Amr Diab
B. Esam Karika
C. Tarkan
D. Hakim
10. Dana International is a banned-in Egypt singer who has the most in common with:
A. Ofra Haza
B. Dalida
C. Dennis Rodman
D. All of the above
(NOTE: The Answer To # 10 is Explained in a previous edition of AntiSocialite, found at http://sallybishai.blogspot.com/2006/02/answer-to-10-in-arab-quiz-no-cheating.html )
ANSWERS
1B, 2A, 3D, 4A, 5D, 6C, 7B, 8D, 9C, 10D.
Results:
If you didn't make a perfect ten, you're hereby sentenced to read all future columns I write. Muahaha.
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Sally Bishai is a writer and journalist who founded X Culture Magazine in January, 2004, and Photo X Quarterly in January 2005. She is also president of the Copt X Fellowship, a non-partisan group dedicated to promoting love, harmony, and respect among Egyptians (and friends). Sally is Egyptian American (or, more specifically, Coptic) and loves to tell people what that means!
Her previous titles include "Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American," and "Date like An Egyptian: The Egyptian's Guide to Finding a Mate...Or Date."
Sally is the host of "Sally Bishai's 30 Minutes With," a webshow that largely focuses on Coptic, civil, and human rights issues, as well as topics dealing with the Middle East.
Her documentaries include "Back To Square One? Fifty Years After Emmett Till," "Strange Behaviour: How Westerners Feel About Gender Roles in the Middle East," and the soon-to-be-released "Children of Kemet: The Copts, Culture, and Democracy of Egypt."
Sally's blog, "The AntiSocialite," holds information about current projects, as well as impassioned articles about politics, current headlines, the trouble with society, and many other things that will probably end up getting her killed. (Check it out at http://sallybishai.blogspot.com )
Sally's Bachelor's of Science was in psychology, but her Master's and the Ph.D. she's currently working on are in speech and intercultural communication. She teaches various classes at the university level, and finds time to lecture (off-campus) about her books, her culture, and other controversial topics.
Sally has worked in radio (international and "domestic"), fashion photography, and film, most recently working as a documentary filmmaker (as mentioned above). Her current project deals with the persecution of Egypt's Copts, which, if you'll remember, she happens to be.
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