The World in Words 25: Negotiating in Arabic, Arab-American writers and the Arabization of The Simpsons

It’s Arabic week at The World in Words. First, how Arabic and Hebrew both help and hinder Middle East negotiations. Then, Arab-American writers and the words they have to use post 9/11. Finally, The Simpsons gets an Arabic language makeover — and a cultural makeover too. That plus our inauguaral hard-to-define foreign word segment (a title for this please, listeners…).