Podcasts: The Flagship Experience

Welcome to the Arabic Flagship Program Student Podcast page, where language is listening. Here we present student podcasts and video creations to reveal the unique details about Arabic culture including cultural identity, traditional dancing and Middle Eastern cuisine. We also showcase videos clips from student events including private concerts and our annual Arabic Talent Show.

The Language Flagship: Creating Global Professionals Video

Revealing Arabic Identity

Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic

Dancing Arabic Around Austin

All that is Arabic in Austin: Food, Markets & Sheesha Cafés

Arabic Talent Show

We invite you to view video clips of student performances from the Arabic Talent Show, hosted by The Arabic Flagship Program at the Texas Union Theatre. Current students studying Arabic presented theatrical acts—singing, dancing and skits—for an evening of entertainment.

Mohamad Abdelsalem’s Second Year Arabic Class

performing an Egyptian Folkloric Song

The Skit of “Ya Rizz” performed by Arabic student Monica Velasco

Christian Glakas serenades the audience with an Arabic acoustic performance of The Beatles’ famous song, “Here Comes the Sun”

Scott and Emily Zuniga perform “il-bint il-shalabiyye,”

a cover song by Lebanese performer May Nasr

Arabic students Greg Ebner and Tom Wright showcase a skit

titled “Who Wants to Graduate”

Middle Eastern Studies students, Adam Dean Cameron and Angie Piñeyro De Hoyos sings “Al-Dinya Foq” from Disney’s Aladdin

Karim Jabbar and Mohammad Minhat entertain the audience

with their “Lailah Majnunah” theatrical performance

Charles Joukhadar’s Arabic Class sings “Asfuur,”

a song by Marcel Khalife

Zeina Halabi’s Arabic Class presents a skit titled

“The Funeral of Ibn Battuta”

Charles Joukhadar’s Arabic Class showing UT sprit with

“The Eyes of Texas”