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...
AFP students who will apply for summer or capstone study abroad in 2012 should plan to attend the Study Abroad Info. Session on Friday, Nov. 4 at 3pm in MEZ 1.212. Rafah Helal from American Councils will join us to share information about study abroad including the application and selection process, the online pre-program exam, Read More...
AFP students are invited to join the Flagship for an information session with the Open Source Center (OSC) on Monday, October 3 at 4pm in SAC 3.116 - the Student Activity Center. The OSC representative joining us this afternoon will be speaking primarily about paid summer internships, but will also be accepting resumes of Flagship Read More...
