<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 28 Apr 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<A href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <A href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</A>]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</A> with first line reading:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Iraqi Kurdish at U of Michigan</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 28 Apr 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<A href="mailto:mayyash@umich.edu">mayyash@umich.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Iraqi Kurdish at U of Michigan</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="7"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26.7px;"><B>Elementary Kurdish of Iraq</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>Summer Term (June 28 - August 18, 2006)</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>Monday – Friday from 9am-1pm</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>May 15 enrollment deadline</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This is an introductory course covering the spoken and written Kurdish of Sulaimania, Iraq, covering the elements of phonology, grammatical structures, vocabulary and the writing system. Students who complete the course will be able to converse on a general level with speakers of the Sorani dialect of Kurdish and to read non-technical prose.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This course will be taught by professor emeritus Ernest McCarus. Textbook: Abdullah and McCarus, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>Kurdish Basic Course. Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq.</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This book can be purchased through the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (</SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:cmenas@umich.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">cmenas@umich.edu</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> or 734-764-0350).</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">For an application and additional information, see the UM Summer Language Institute website at </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/sli"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/sli</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. The program fee for this course is $2,600.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This course is sponsored by the University of Michigan Summer Language Institute (SLI) and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) (</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cmenas"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cmenas</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">).</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This course has a minimum enrollment requirement of 4 students by May 15, 2006 or it will NOT be offered.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 28 Apr 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "></DIV></BODY></HTML>