Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:info at hedayetinstitute.com
Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter

Register for Summer before April 30th!

  Join Term I or II, or combine the two for a leap in your Arabic  
proficiency

	• Summer Programs Duration:  7 weeks Term I starting June 17th; or  
Term II August 2nd ending mid September 09;  or 14 weeks combining two  
terms.  Each term includes 20 hrs/week of MSA and Egyptian Colloquial  
Arabic weekly trips, seminars, cultural activities, gatherings with  
Egyptian youth and parties.
	• Cost of One Term :  2500 USD covering language instruction,  
cultural activities with transportation to sites and a guide,  
placement test, orientation, welcome package, airport pick up, free  
wireless internet, assistance in search for suitable housing (shared  
furnished apartments by 2 or 3 students are for approximately 350 USD  
per month)
Hedayet Institute opens a new door with a new campus
Hedayet Institute just found a newer, bigger home right in its own  
neighborhood	  “We are very excited to have a new place for us to grow  
and meet the high demand on HIAS programs,” said Dr. Hedayet, the  
founder and director of the institute.
          The new location is a three-minute walk from the underground  
station, making it easy for students to reach downtown while still  
living in the heart of Maadi. The new building is in a very secure  
location with a trusted hospital nearby. It also has a rooftop garden  
which will be used for HIAS events. The new campus will have three  
times the number of classes and more space for extra-curricular  
activities and relaxing.
        "We wanted to increase space for our students without  
compromising our philosophy of providing small, high-quality classes  
for our students” said Dr. Nagwa Hedayet.
Stay tuned for our opening celebration!
		
Hedayet speaks at AUC
Speaking of languages. . .
Teachers and researchers from throughout Asia, the Middle East,  
Europe, and the U.S. discussed the practicalities of pedagogy at the  
“Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric” conference this month.  
The conference, held from March 23-25 at the American University in  
Cairo’s new campus, brought together linguists of the Arabic and  
English languages.
Dr. Nagwa Hedayet was a featured speaker at the conference with the  
topic of “Arabic Across the Disciplines in Higher Education.” During  
her speech she shared her experience teaching Arabic using this method  
in the United Arab Emirates.
The other lecturers  presented a variety of interesting topics ranging  
from the Ancient Egyptian words still used in Egyptian Arabic to using  
web 2.0 to teach Arabic. Gayle Nelson, who has coordinated USAID  
funded projects to train English teachers in Egypt, gave the keynote  
speech “Controversies in second-language writing.”

Monthly Medal: Highlighting HIAS Students
This month’s medal goes to Joshua Georgy, a PhD student at Columbia  
University.  Joshua, originally from Pennslyvania, is researching the  
Coptic Church during the 18th and 19th centuries, with the goal of  
widening the view of Egyptian and Coptic histories.
"The modern period divides all ideas that are forward-thinking as part  
of an artificial thing called the West,” he said.
At HIAS, Joshua studies Medieval Arabic in order to better understand  
manuscripts from the Coptic Patriarchal Archives and the Egyptian  
National Archives.
He originally came to Hedayet Institute on a FLAS scholarship last  
academic year (07-08). At this time he concentrated on the Arabic  
language and learned very quickly. He started with a basic grasp on  
conversation and little writing experience. Today, he writes even his  
doctorate ideas in Arabic. Joshua, whose father is from Egypt, wants  
to tell the histories that are usually ignored.

	• Students can transfer their HIAS credits to their home university  
program.  A number of universities and programs transfer HIAS program  
credits.
	• For registration please fill in an application online at: www.hedayetinstitute.com 
  or send us at info at hedayetinstitute.com
				WWW.HEDAYETINSTITUTE.COM  INFO at HEDAYETINSTITUTE.COM   TEL/FAX:  
+(202)25272190  US Tel: + 1(646)2168308

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