Arabic Education : My Passion To Learning Arabic

“I hate your Arabic!” I snarled in my broken English. My mother stared at me in confusion while I seethed about my heritage internally. For whatever reason, this toxic state of mind stuck with me through my elementary-school years. I promised myself that I would strive to become like everyone else and slowly began to erase my Lebanese culture from my mannerisms.

Coming from an Arab American household, there has always been an emphasis on higher education and higher socio economic status. I believe that it is something that can be found in various Arab American Communities in the United States and these standards set in the household show when you look at the statistics as to where Arab Americans stand on both educational and socio economical scales. This paper will look into the history of Arabs in the United States, as well as the demographics of the Arab community in the U.S, and cultural and physiological backings that may all have influence on education. My goal for this research paper is to find the reasons behind the Arab American strive for education and socioeconomic success and whether the Arab culture has a positive or negative influence on the success of Arab Americans.

In Joyce's "Araby", we see a variety of symbolism. The boy who serves as the main character of the story introduces religious symbolism and imagery all throughout the story. The narrator who I assume to boy, references many abstract and tangible things from a religious perspective. For this writing assignment, I will identify four specific places in the text that is associated with religion, explain why I have this chose to be in reference to religion and lastly I will explain what the religious imagery reveals as far the boy’s character.

Coming from a family of 7 teachers, education was crucial to us growing up. Private schools were far more superior over the public schools especially in the languages and social studies fields. Attending such school, has educated me on the Arabic, French, and English languages and culture. Learning three different languages and cultures has educated me heavily on the importance of diversity, open mindedness and adjusting to new things. All of which became very important to me when I learned I’m moving to Canada at the age of nine. Knowing three languages helped me enormously while transitioning from Lebanon to Canada since I could communicate with my new classmates. Also knowing different languages and cultures makes it very hard to be closed minded. Knowing so much about many different societies at a young age develops a habit of accepting others. Also learning Arabic since preschool, French since kindergarten and English since grade four prepared me to quickly and constantly learn different things without much

Cooperation and willingness to share and work together to prosper is what makes a community great. Being born in Syria, the land of the oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world, I am blessed to have learned to speak Arabic. With some hard work, I was also able to learn English and French. To establish an Arabic Club to help students learn the language and get to know foreign cultures is one of my goals during college. Wheaton College’s diversity welcoming environment would be the perfect place for that. I gained a lot of new skills from the Entrepreneurship Clubs that I am part of at my community college and I believe highly in college clubs.

The current view of Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans has been misconstrued by the media leading to extreme contempt towards these groups of people. Most Arab Americans have been generalized as Muslim extremists or refugees, when in fact this is not the case. This paper will explain how these people became a “group of interest”, depict what kind of people make up the Arab American population, parallel refugees and terrorists to expose common misconceptions of Arab-Americans, explain the sects of Muslim religion and its values, and finally conclude with why this matters to the American education system and my own personal reflection on my research.

There is very little we can accomplish with the absence of language in our lives. Aminata started off being the daughter of a very smart man who taught her how to read and write even though girls were not supposed to learn to do either or. Aminata says “He claimed that it was not the place of a girl to learn to read and write, but relented when he saw me attempting to draw words in Arabic […] So, in the privacy of our home, with nobody but my mother as a witness […] I learned to write phrases in Arabic” (Hill 17). When taken from Bayo and shipped out to become a slave, her life became a nightmare. Aminata uses language to cope with the whole slavery situation she is put in. The author shows us how powerful language is when Aminata arrives on Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation. On this plantation Aminata is forced to do very exhausting work but fortunately for her she meets Georgia and Mamed. Georgia teaches Aminata Gullah, this was the language the slaves used around each other to make sure the slave owners would not be able to understand them. This benefited Aminata immensely as she was able to communicate easily with her new

She uttered a guttural sound as she attempted to weave the syllables together, stopping frequently to match the letter with the appropriate sound. She struggled through the lines, the rhythm and beauty lost in her voice. For thirty minutes, Fatima labored over the page, her head bent over in frustration ignoring her sister’s plea to play. As the time for her break approached, she vehemently protested, choosing instead to clamber into my arms, begging me to translate what she had just read. At her young age, she had fallen in love with the Arabic language. She loved the feeling of serenity that caressed her at hearing its recitation, but even more, she loved reciting it; she loved how it took her entire mouth to say a single word and the rhythm of the stressed and unstressed syllables. However, after months of practicing, she remained a far cry from the harmonious voice she aspired to attain.

Over the past few years I have discovered how deeply I want to be involved in politics and international affairs. With those goals in mind, I researched colleges with the best programs for those majors. The college that stood out to me the most was George Washington University. One of the biggest things that stood out was that there is an entire school dedicated to international affairs. This means that there is room for me to grow in any concentration I wish, with a quality staff to guide me along the way. Moreover, it is important for me to be in a diverse and understanding community so George Washington’s involvement with increasing inclusion and creating a culture of cultural empathy makes the school a great fit for me. Additionally, I

A year later, family was one of the few lucky to find a safe haven in the city of Abu-Dhabi, while our immigration resettlement application was being reviewed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. At fifteen, I developed a clear vision of what I wanted to do with the rest of my schooling years. I completed my secondary education with

I used to think that all people and countries speak Arabic language because I born in Arabic country “Yemen”. I didn’t know anyone that speaks different language or even speak different accents of Arabic. The school that I went to they didn’t teach English language. The education in Yemen is not very good like in the United States or as in the other Arab countries. For that reason, I face a lot of obstacles when I came to the United States with both the Arabic accents and the English language. Believe me a lot of things that happened to me that you will never imagine it, so here where my story begins.

Fascinated by both religion and language; I barely gave these 2 subjects a chance because I could not see how doing so was going to pay any of my Bills. So I did other things to make money. Now several years later, all the kids are grown and self supporting and I am reaching back to try to fulfill a dream of studying religion and language before I get too old. I will still need to work to support myself and am not quite sure how these studies will benefit me in that aspect but this time I am stepping out on a tiny bit of faith and praying that God will open the door. Grateful also am I to Colorado Christian University for offering this program online because if I had to attend a traditional classroom I would not be able to for several reasons. In addition, because I am able to study in the privacy of my own home I do not have to explain to my fellow Islamic Community why at this age or stage in my life I have chosen Biblical Studies as a major. Originally I had chosen Health Care Administration because I currently work in a hospital and thought it might be easier for me to remain in the same

Education remains to be the priority of all nations around the globe. Most countries devote vast resources to guarantee equal education opportunities to all their students. Most education systems are developed to meet the economic and social demands of the country, both locally and globally. As the world’s 8th highest education spender, Saudi Arabia initiates an overhaul on the education system. It is the largest country in the Middle East. The Saudi Arabian education has gone through an astounding transformation. Initially, education was only available to few people who were children of the wealthy families. However, the transformation of the Saudi Education is now offering education to all children regardless of their social status.

Arab is not a race, but is a group of individuals that are united by their culture and history (ADC, 2014). There are many different variations commonly based on a particular individual’s country of origin such as Arab Americans. Other variations are based on their social class, the level of their education, if they live urbanely or rurally, or the time they have spent in the United States (Lipson & Dubble, 2007). Most Arabs also practice Islamic religion and are Muslim. When working with an Arab or Muslim client, nurses should ask what the client wishes to be referred to so as not to offend them in any way (Lipson & Dubble, 2007).

As noted before newer devices lacked full Arabic support in the past. Today however Arabic can be used easily in almost any device. With that in mind we still find this new writing system to be used in every day online communication. AWOS today is used mainly between the youth population. The reasons mentioned earlier has almost, gone extinct. Most operating systems, websites and mobile-devices fully support Arabic. The usage now, is not out of necessity, but rather out of personal preference. Through observing online posts and comments we can sense the general attitudes towards this style. We can notice a period of time where this style of writing was a niche, and a form of distinguish between others. Also, we can notice the current attitude of young Arabic speakers. AWOS is consider by many Arabic speakers a bad way of writing , and it will threaten the Arabic language . They view this system as combination of Arabic and English . While it is true such fears may be valid if the two languages are used together as in a hybrid of English and Spanish , Spanglish , AWOS is not the same. The writing system is not affect the language itself or cause it to go extinct. Other languages have gone through the same process of implementing Latin characters in their writing system and have not been affected. The concern is mostly due to Arabic countries that uses more languages in everyday discourse .For example , in Moroco they speak Arabic and