by Kelly Fagerman The AFP recently hosted its alumnus Imaad Khan to talk about his experiences in graduate school. Imaad completed his Capstone Year in Damascus, Syria in 2011, and graduated from UT with a BA in Religious Studies. After working at the Refugee Services of Texas in the Resettlement Program, Imaad returned to UT Read More...
The AFP recently hosted its alumna Laurel McDonald to speak about her time in Meknes, Morocco during the Arabic Flagship Capstone Year. Laurel completed her Capstone Year 2013 – 2014, and since then has been teaching Arabic to high school students in Austin. To begin, Laurel talked about the logistics of the Capstone Year. Students Read More...
The AFP’s alumnus Mr. Bud Kauffman joined us on Thursday over Skype to talk about his experiences since graduating from UT. After completing his Capstone year in Damascus, Syria in 2011, Mr. Kauffman went on to obtain his Master’s in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from UT. After graduate school, he taught Arabic for Read More...
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies welcomed a group of visiting Iraqi journalists to campus for a cultural exchange with students and faculty of the UT Arabic Summer Institute. The journalists described their careers, discussed the current political climate in Iraq, and fielded questions from ASI students, all in Arabic. Each journalist articulated his or Read More...
The AFP was proud to host two of our very own Alumni, Ustaaza Muna Rehman and Ustaaza Arielle Levin as they brought their high school students of Arabic to The University of Texas at Austin for a visit to the Arabic community at UT. Ustaaz Dr. Mahmoud Al Batal, AFP Director, and Ustaaza Dr. Kristen Read More...
Internationally acclaimed author Hoda Barakat is the inaugural scholar of the new Arabic Scholar in Residence Program in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies for fall 2013. Ms. Barakat has won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and the Al-Naqid Award, and her recent novel, Kingdom of this Earth, was longlisted for the 2012 Arabic Booker Read More...
Ahlan w Sahlan! As the AFP heads into another great academic year, we are pleased to include fourteen more scholars to our program for fall 2013. The new AFP students are Brian Culbert, William Yoss, Claire Bontempo, Amir Halai, Nadeen Abou-Hossa, James Gianakopoulos, Zaid Amir, Kathryn Klokker, Lana Baumgartner, Natalie Bernstien, Adeli Block, Nathan Bumagny, Read More...
Dr. Mahmoud Al Batal was certainly surprised in his class when Dr. Esther Raizen, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, walked in and presented him with the Teaching Excellence Award from the Texas Language Center. We could not think of a candidate more deserving and we are thrilled for Dr. Al Batal! The Read More...
Two AFP students applied and were accepted for part-time internships with the Austin office of Refugee Services of Texas (RST), a local refugee resettlement organization. Courtney Graves, a sophomore in the AFP, is currently working to support the RST Language Partner Program. The program matches native-English speaking volunteers with recently arrived refugees to help Read More...
Explore UT is one of the most important annual events held at The University of Texas at Austin. It’s considered the biggest open house in Texas, and everyone’s invited to explore and experience life on our vibrant college campus. Explore UT is a day of events, performances, exhibits, lectures and activities for the entire family. Read More...
