Lower Intermediate - The eye

A fascinating lesson,especially the story about the eye. I had heard of it before but it is useful to learn more about it while also learning new vocabulary and phrases.
Thanks for your continued valuable supply of learning material! :-)

This is another great lesson and you guys are as good as always :-). Shukran!

At this occasion: In a blog, found the concept of a person or an institution having "wahra" (strong and influential presence that commands respect). Could this, and similar concepts, be the topic of a future lesson?

By the way, how would I spell "wahra" in Arabic? 8-/

Thanks again for your excellent learning material.

B.

Hi Bianca

I couldn't find anything in the dictionary and then googled your phrase and found

.."In Lebanon, we invented the world wahra, (Strong and influential presence that commands respect)"..

I'm guessing it's a Lebanese only word, not الفصحى

this was a really good one...especially culturally....i lived all my childhood in the gulf(dubai.oh how much i miss thst place!!) and never knew about it....its strange,because here in india to we have something like that(i mean the evil eye)..i never really new what it meant because i belong to the christian faith....(my friends used to say:dont look at this or that like that, teasing me)...even some people put a big black spot on their babys face so that they dont get the evil eye...might be due to this reason.YOU GUYS ROCK!!

oh!!! i forgot to add...there a city in dubai called al ain! LOL

sorry!! UAE sometimes im a bit سخيف(SILLY)

I was surprised to hear from people I met there that magical belief persists so strongly, especially in Egypt and Morocco. In Tunisia there was a sister-in-law of the friend I stayed with that was suspected of buying 'spells' to add to her wayward husband's food to keep him. The popular view there that cancer can also be a side effect of this.