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November 2011
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Zoya Waliany
One of the most notable features of Arabic literature is that it almost always has a sad ending. Whether the story features a beautiful heroine from the time of Nasser, an elderly man reflecting back on his life, or a young child learning valuable life lessons, you’ll leave with a feeling of the deepest sorrow Read More...
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By Mason Merrill who is currently studying with AFP in Alexandria, Egypt. So, here’s the thing, Egyptians are sweet talkers. Real sweet. There are about thousand expressions to learn, but the one for right now is, “Just five minutes.” Before the actual flight over here, we had a day-and-a-half pre-departure orientation/culture-adaptation workshop in D.C. One Read More...
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By Basia Borodziewicz from her blog Co Innego Cebula at http://cebula-basia.blogspot.com/ Usually when I travel abroad, I don’t want to return to the States. When I take my first flight from another country, I feel a pang of regret for leaving. Then as I hear more English with each following plane, I try to hold on Read More...
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September 2011
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Zoya Waliany
If you want me to tell you how I finally made the transition from pronouncing my “jeems” as “geems,” how I learned to precisely describe breakfast tacos in Arabic, or how I heard about the famous Egyptian holiday Sham el-Nessim, my answers will all be the same: my AFP language partner taught me. One of Read More...
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September 2011
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Leah Gilman
I wish I had had the time to write all of you while I was still in Morocco, while the smell of fresh orange juice was still waking me up in the mornings and I was sitting in my secret fig tree on the edge of my campus. But maybe you’ll be glad to hear Read More...
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By Charles Nwaogu I found myself one night trekking towards a small shop in a derelict Moroccan neighborhood in search of a cheap meal. People sat around the local gated mosque conversing in a dialect from which I could only process certain words. On my left lay a great field of rubble where children gleefully Read More...
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July 2011
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Helena Schneider
Arabic Flagship Program (AFP) Student, Grace Zhang, is abroad this summer studying in Meknes, Morocco. Her time abroad is part of her participation in the Arabic Overseas Flagship Program where she is studying Arabic – specifically the Moroccan dialect – for two months. In her Arabic media class, Grace created a video for her midterm Read More...
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Ahlan wa Sahlan….Greetings from Morocco! We’re living in Medina Meknes, a city in the north, in the Hotel Transatlantique. The hotel is really old and enormous, like a palace….a palace with a Discotheque. There’s a mountain view from my balcony and orange trees right outside my window. And there’s a bidet in my bathroom. That’s Read More...
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May 2011
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Leah Gilman
“I never, ever, have to put this CD in my computer again if I don’t want!” My roommate, a fellow Arabic student, is yelling from the kitchen. Everybody else in the house has no idea what he’s talking about or why he’s so happy. But I do. Arabic thaalitha students, this is the end of Read More...
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Before spending the summer in Alex last year riding in taxis/cabs was a very new concept to me. I never take cabs in America since they are so expensive and al7amdulillah I have my own car, but I was told by several people that taking a taxi is quite normal in Egypt, even for poor Read More...
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