COME CELEBRATE A SEMESTER OF HARD WORK AND ACCOMPLISHMENT WITH YOUR AFP COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS!!!! This Friday, April 27th @ 4:00 pm the Arabic Flagship Program will be hosting an end of semester celebration. Please join us at Arpeggio’s Grill, 2522 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78705. There will be food and refreshments, music and friends. Read More...
On Friday, April 20th at 8 pm the Society for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas presents Marcel Khalife and Al Mayadine Ensemble. We encourage all Flagship students to reserve their ticket for the concert by emailing Jordan Bellquist at jbellquist@austin.utexas.edu. Oud Master, composer and performer Marcel Khalife created a musical group in his native Read More...
Next week, The National Language Service Corps (NLSC) will be visiting the UT campus to host career information sessions with both the AFP and HUF (Hindi Urdu Flagship) students. The sessions schedule is below, and AFP & HUF students are both invited to attend. The presentation and content in the sessions will be the same, but we are Read More...
On Thursday, Feb. 23, Dr. Michael Cooperson, Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA, will be visiting the UT campus for the Jil-Jadid Conference. During his visit, the AFP has arranged for him to deliver a lecture in Arabic at 3:30pm on Thur., Feb. 23 in SAC Read More...
On Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 8pm, the AFP will host a film screening in conjunction with Tugg, of the acclaimed documentary Garbage Dreams by Mai Iskander, at the Barton Creek Theater. Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade on the outskirts of Cairo. The film showed at SXSW in 2009 and Read More...
Students, faculty, staff & language partners of the AFP - Mark your calendars! You’re invited to attend the Spring 2012 AFP Welcome Back Event at the Arab Cowboy on Friday, Jan. 27 at 3pm, hosted by the AFP. During this social event, you’ll have the opportunity to meet current and new AFP scholars, our program Read More...
Emily Brandt, CLS Alumni Ambassador for the 2012 Critical Language Scholarship, will be visiting the UT campus to host an informal Q&A session at the Starbucks on 24th Street, on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6:30pm. AFP students and students of Arabic are invited to attend. The Q&A session will provide a unique opportunity for students Read More...
Students, faculty staff and friends of the Arabic Flagship Program are invited to attend a performance by the Middle Eastern Ensemble, featuring special guest, Malhoun singer Laila Lamrini from Morocco. The performance takes place the evening of Thursday, November 10 at 7:30pm in Bates Recital Hall. The performance will include works from Morocco, Algeria, Zanzibar, Read More...
Based on her experience as an Arabic novelist, Iman Humaydan will talk about the relation between memory and writing in Lebanon today. In a country where reconciliation and speaking the truth about war atrocities have been difficult issues to tackle, artistic production such as novelistic writing play a major role in exposing the unsaid through Read More...
Our colleagues from the Institute of International Education (IIE) will be visiting the UT campus in November to host a Boren information session for both AFP and HUF students on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 12pm in CBA 4.328. We strongly encourage all Flagship students who are planning to apply for study abroad Read More...
