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I can’t imagine believing all your life that your father had never learned to read or write and only finding out ten years after his death that he most certainly did. In a system going back to the 10th century.
I remember reading a profile of Richard Nixon years ago where he justified his intense racism by saying, All those people in Africa and across all of history they never even came up with a written language? They never kept records?
But they did.
Ajami, a modified Arabic, was never taught in school by the colonialists nor acknowledged.
With help from my friend Lise, I stumbled across this very cool story from my late father’s alma mater.
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Wow!!! How thrilling (and sad in a way) this discovery is.
Comment by Jayleen Hatmaker 01.06.23 @ 9:17 am!!!!
But then again, it was often said that the women were illiterate because they “only” read and wrote in Yiddish.
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