Lebanese TV Host Ridicules Assad Remarks
Lesson Brief
Al Arabiya
On April 21, Al Arabiya, a Saudi-owned news outlet, ridiculed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for comments he made during a recent TV interview. The article discussed a recent episode of Lebanese TV program DNA in which the host mocks Assad's remarks that the West is contravening its principles when it sends weapons into a sovereign nation to support terrorist groups, as Assad claims it does. Using sarcasm, the TV host makes a comparison with former Lebanese minister and Assad ally Michel Samaha, who recently confessed in court to transporting explosives from Syria into Lebanon on Syrian orders in order to carry out attacks. Read the article , watch the embedded video (Lebanese dialect) in the article, and see if you can pick up the sarcasm, which is often difficult to do in a foreign language.
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- to admit, to confess
- اعْتَرَفَ ، يَعْتَرِفُ
- news leads, bulletins
- نشرات
- scandal
- فضيحة
- to neglect, to brush off
- تَغافَلَ ، يَتَغافَلُ
- to play dumb, to act ignorant of, to ignore
- تَجاهَلَ ، يَتَجاهَلُ
- to conduct, to run, to hold
- أَجْرَى ، يُجْري
- instead of
- بدل
- awaiting evidence, waiting for proof
- انتظار الأدلة
- allowed, permissible
- مسموح
- it chose its words carefully (well)
- انتقت كلماتها جيداً