The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private ( 2004 ), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.

The Al Arabiya internet news service ( alarabiya. net ) was launched in 2004 initially in Arabic, and was joined by an English-language service in 2007, and Persian and Urdu services in 2008.

In 2004, he published a " terrorist manual " entitled " The Base of the Vanguard ", an Arabic pun on the phrases al-Qaeda (" the base ") and the Vanguards of Conquest.

Abdul Rahman Munif ( May 29, 1933 – January 24, 2004 ) () was one of the most important Arabic novelists of the 20th century. He is most noted for closely reflecting the political surroundings of his day.

* Ambros Arne A 2004: " A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic ".

* Hassaniya Arabic ( Mali ) – English – French dictionary, Heath, Jeffrey / Harrassowitz / 2004

There are currently four countries, including France ( since 2004 ), which have banned the wearing of all overt religious symbols, including the hijab ( a Muslim headscarf, literally Arabic " to cover "), in public schools and universities or government buildings.

The Bahrain International Circuit ( Arabic: حلبة البحرين الدولية ) is a motorsport venue opened in 2004 and used for drag racing, GP2 and the annual Bahrain Grand Prix.

* Gist of a Life Time ( in Arabic ), 2004.

* Sound without Echo ( in Arabic ), 2004

According to the Arabic historian al-Turtūshī, Ramiro ( misidentified as " Ibn Rudmīr ", the son of Ramiro ) was assassinated by a Muslim soldier who spoke the Christians ' language and infiltrated the Aragonese camp .< ref > Brian A. Catlos ( 2004 ), The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050 – 1300 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), 37 .</ ref >

* Ambros Arne A & Procháczka Stephan 2004: A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic ", Reichert

Iman Darweesh Al Hams ( Arabic:, also ' Iyman '), ( 1991-5 October 2004 ) was a 13-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) fire near a military observation post in a " no-man's " zone near the Philadelphi Route on 5 October 2004, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

* Complete Arabic text of 2004 Osama bin Laden videotape on al-Jazeera

In August 2004, after the movie's broadcast on Dutch public TV, the newspaper De Volkskrant reported that the journalist Francisco van Jole had accused Hirsi Ali and Van Gogh of plagiarism, saying that they had appropriated the ideas of Iranian-American video artist Shirin Neshat, whose work used Arabic text projected onto bodies.

In January 2004, she organized the " Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the role of the International Penal Court ", the first for an Arabic country.

Muwashshah: proceedings of the Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels, School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), London, 8-10 October 2004.

* Guantanamo Spy Cases Evaporate: Chaplain and Arabic Translator Are Now Facing Only Lesser Charges, Washington Post, January 25, 2004

His Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia ( History of the Muslims of Sicily, 1854 ) has been translated into many languages, including Arabic by a group of Egyptian scholars in 2004.

In the summer of 2004, Lisa released NAIMA-meu anjo, a collection of African and Arabic songs done in a bossa nova style.

In 2004, its Arabic TV service, Arirang Arab began.

In May 2004 the journalist Salam Karam wrote an article in Svenska Dagbladet where he alleged that the mosque had deliberately mistranslated and / or left out controversial parts of the Arabic – Swedish translations of the sermons held in the mosque by Imam Hassan Moussa.