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As a Harvard undergraduate, Feldman had lived in Eliot House and majored in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, perfect his Arabic, and become an expert on Islamic law.
O’Sullivan said she enrolled in an introductory Arabic class this fall at the College but dropped out the second semester, saying she realized she was supposed to be relaxing.
Fang said that there was a time when she could travel freely around Baghdad, take Arabic lessons at the home of an Iraqi woman, and talk to civilians under protection of her abaya.
On cultural training The amount of cultural experience we got varied. We had classes. We had some limited Arabic training. The biggest thing that was helpful in my unit was that we had soldiers who'd deployed before. A power-point presentation is wonderful, but it...
Ali's own training in Iran came in late 2005, when he says he and a group of roughly 14 other Iraqis drove to the southern city of Amarah, near the Iranian border. Everything had been arranged through contacts in Syria and Lebanon, where he and his group had fled...