Arabic-L:GEN:Humsi jokes responses

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Date: 10 Apr 2007
From:mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Humsi jokes response

Greetings.

Although I don't know about Humsi jokes, there are a few published  
compilations (mostly only in the Arabic) of somewhat-similar "Tafiili  
and Saltii" jokes in Jordan and "Saedii" and "fahlawiii" jokes in  
Egypt. Those jokes are based primarily on social class and level of  
educations / native shrewdness and quick-wittedness, rather than  
ethnic differentiations. My copies of those paperbacks are not at  
hand, as I relocated to Riyadh. As best I can recall, some bookstores  
in Cairo and Amman carried those publications in the late 1980s -  
early 1990s.

You might also query University Microfilms for theses and  
dissertations in Arabic linguistics that treated such jokes.

Hope this helps.
Khair, in shaa' Allah.
Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
Riyadh / Khashem al-An

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Date: 10 Apr 2007
From:Lutfi Abulhaija <lutfi86 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Humsi jokes response

Dear Afra,
   Just go to Yarmouk University(Jordan) website & you will find more  
than one thesis on Arabic jokes as well as their translations.Check  
the library holdings.Good luck.

   Lutfi Abulhaija

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