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Bittar is an artist, educator, writer and California organizer for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She lives in North Park. Why would someone like me care about Arabic? My family’s ...

Students in this course will develop their skills in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic, the form of the Arabic language shared by all Arab countries. The course covers ...

Waed Athamneh is a specialist in Arabic literature. Her work focuses on modern Arabic literature and 20th-century Arab politics. Her book on the major literary movements and new directions in modern ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The literary text is basically a piece of history that has undergone a process of literaturization. The most important convergence point ...

Most of our courses require some training in Arabic. The exceptions are ARAB 100, the COLL100 course exploring big questions in Arabic Studies, ARAB 101, Elementary Arabic I, our course for beginning ...

The Department of Modern Languages currently offers programs in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Language is how we communicate. It is how ...

Mona Zaki, Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, defended her dissertation on the depiction of hell in medieval Islmaic thought in June 2015 at Princeton University in the Near Eastern ...