The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Beast

Hossam Abouzahr has over fifteen years of experience working in international development, human rights, writing, and editing. His true passion lies in stories; art; and languages, especially Arabic. By some miraculous twist of fate, he found a way to combine all of them by writing and illustrating his own stories, which he then translates into different Arabic dialects. His writing draws extensively on his personal research on the Arabic language; folklore; literature; and the difficulty in passing those subjects on to children, an experience he knows both from his childhood and now as a father. You can support his madness on Patreon at www.patreon.com/livingarabic. You can also check out his nerdy Arabic website, which has the largest collection of cross-referencing Arabic dialect dictionaries, at www.livingarabic.com. If you want to read about Hossam's experience teaching Arabic to his son, you can check out this article he published in Newlines Magazine: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/how-arabs-have-failed-their-language.