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Citing the current political climate in the Middle East and a genuine desire to understand its cultural backdrop, a growing number of students are signing up to relearn their ABC’s—in Arabic.
According to the Registrar’s website, 97 students are currently enrolled in Arabic A, “Elementary Arabic,” a 20 percent increase over last year.
Students who have already begun to learn the language are continuing their studies in second and third-year Arabic classes. Professor of the Practice of Arabic William Granara estimated that enrollment in third-year Arabic doubled this year.
While in the past, many students had said they studied Arabic to get in touch with their heritage, today they are joined by more and more students hoping to gain perspective on global politics.
Kuraj, as Silvia di Natale notes in her remarkable first novel of that name, is a Kyrgyz word for a kind of bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly...