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...scholarships, which offer grants of up to $5,000 for study abroad, according to the Harvard funding website.President Bush also announced a plan at the summit last Thursday to allot $114 million to the National Security Language Initiative, which would promote the study of Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Farsi, among other languages.A related proposal, which would also emphasize the study of languages critical to national security, is part of a bill currently awaiting Congressional approval. The Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant would give some college students majoring in selected languages an additional $4,000 a year...
...very strong belief in what they are doing as well. It reminds you that there are so many other people with so many other opinions, and how easily those opinions can be swayed in the wrong direction. THC: Tying into that, how was your experience with learning Arabic and Farsi for the film? GC: I had an Iranian roommate in college, so Farsi wasn’t so hard, but Arabic almost killed me. There’s no Latin to it, so there’s nothing I could really cling to. I had to learn it phonetically...
...restaurant called Pedals ("A little fey for a high-level spook meeting," says Gaghan) in 2002, he sensed that the ex-spy, who was once accused of trying to arrange the assassination of Saddam Hussein, was far better movie material than his book. As it happened, Baer, who speaks Farsi and Arabic, was a willing conduit into the culture and characters of the Middle East. "Summer was ending, and I had to take my daughter back to boarding school in Europe," says Baer, 53. "All the players in the Gulf spend August in the south of France, so I told...
Dumas, the author of “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America,” said it’s an Iranian tradition to spend countless hours telling stories...
...questions. They had been approved in advance, but I asked one they did not approve. I thought, What are they going to do? Take me hostage? "Anwar Sadat says you are a lunatic," I asked. Of course, he doesn't speak English, and I don't speak Farsi. The interpreter was between us, and he looked at me like I was a nut case. He puts the question to him, and I must say, for the first time he began to peer at me. Who is this who is asking this question? He predicted not much of a future...