Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) I saw the image, large and framed in black, of a well-known historical figure who is noted for his having been martyred in a very bloody way.  The image was the kind that was usually held aloft in mourning processions.  It had a stylized painting of his countenance.  He looked me from [...]

Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) Today we understand much more about human language than did the philologists of past centuries, but there are still many questions that are yet to be answered.  For example, we are still not certain how language originated.  We also have the fact that many of our concepts about the external world (and [...]