<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-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: Thu 03 Jan 2008</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:YCMES-Yemen Study Abroad Program</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: 03 Jan 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<a href="mailto:mbayelo@duke.edu">mbayelo@duke.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:YCMES-Yemen Study Abroad Program</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; ">Dear Colleagues:<br><br>I am forwarding the email below. YCMES is an exceptional place<br>for students of Arabic. It was a marvelous experience<br>and a fruitful expedition for our students at Duke.<br><br>Mbaye,<br><br>Dear Dr. Mbaye Lo,<br><br>The Study Abroad program at the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies is<br>coming together to provide students a new, unique opportunity to study the<br>contemporary Middle East and intensive Arabic language. This is an exciting<br>time for studying in Yemen, and please help us by spreading the word of this<br>new educational venture. Encourage your students and fellow<br>educators/administrators to review our website at HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/">http://www.ycmes.org/</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/">www.ycmes.org</a> for complete information.<br><br>The YCMES is now accepting applications for its inaugural year, starting<br>September 2008. Refer to the admissions page at HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/admissions.htm">http://www.ycmes.org/admissions.htm</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/admissions.htm">www.ycmes.org/admissions.htm</a> for more<br>information on enrollment.<br><br>Why should students choose the study abroad program at the YCMES?<br><br>1) Location: Yemen, The Arabia Felix<br><br>The College is centrally located in Sana’a, the capital of the Republic of<br>Yemen, in a residential neighborhood near the main square of the city and<br>within walking distance of the historical Old City. Yemen is an ideal<br>location for such a college. It is perhaps the only country left in the<br>Middle East where foreigners can practice their Arabic with local people and<br>not be forced to use English or other languages. In addition to the superb<br>language environment, Yemenis have retained their customs and traditions<br>with very little Western influence, offering an international student the<br>opportunity to live among one of the most traditional Arab societies. Not<br>only among the most hospitable on earth, as well as the kindest, Yemenis are<br>also proud of their traditional poetry, dress, dance, and crafts. Language<br>learners will find curious Yemenis willing and even eager to speak Arabic<br>with them, not always the case among the urban educated people in other<br>Arabic-speaking countries. To learn more about Yemen, please visit HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/aboutyemen.htm">http://www.ycmes.org/aboutyemen.htm</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/aboutyemen.htm">www.ycmes.org/aboutyemen.htm</a>.<br><br>2) Arabic Language Programs: The Yemen Language Center<br><br>The College will draw its Arabic language program from the Yemen Language<br>Center. With almost twenty years of experience, the YLC has developed an<br>excellent curriculum of Arabic courses. Classroom instruction is designed<br>to develop the student’s speaking and listening skills, as reading and<br>writing can be covered both in non-Arabic environments and from homework<br>drills. The YLC is equipped with the latest in language learning<br>technologies and privileged with a qualified and experienced instructors,<br>from five to 23 years of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. The YLC<br>offers Arabic language instruction from survival lessons to post-advanced<br>independent study. Though many supplementary materials are utilized, the<br>primary textbook for the YLC program is Al-Kitaab fi Tacallum al-cArabiyya<br>from Georgetown Press. The YCMES is also proud to host outside Arabists<br>(such as Dr. Peter Abboud, Dr. Aman Attieh, and scheduled in May, Dr.<br>Mahmoud Al-Batal and Dr. Kristen Brustad) for review and evaluation of the<br>program and to give developmental workshops for instructors. Through all of<br>its endeavors, the Arabic language program of the YLC continues to get<br>excellent reviews from its students, who comment on the quality of<br>instruction and the infusion of language and culture. To learn more about<br>the Arabic language programs, please visit HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/ylc.htm">http://www.ycmes.org/ylc.htm</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/ylc.htm">www.ycmes.org/ylc.htm</a>.<br><br>3) Academic Quality: The Program in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies<br><br>The PCMES, designed by Honorary Dean Steven C. Caton of Harvard University,<br>offers a wide range of university-level courses on contemporary Middle East<br>Studies. Each semester, a select number of courses are offered as a<br>cross-discipline reflection of the current faculty. The faculty is<br>comprised of the world’s most distinguished regional specialists, both<br>Yemeni and non-Yemeni, and most of whom hold professorial appointments at<br>leading universities. Classes will be kept small in size, seminar-style<br>with 12-15 students, with a keen interest in maintaining high academic<br>quality. Students will also be afforded opportunities to work with faculty<br>in independent research, experience fieldwork, perform academic internships,<br>and volunteer work.<br><br>Visiting Faculty for 2008-2009 Academic Year<br><br>Dr. Abdul Karim Alaug, Anthropology, Associate Dean YCMES/Sana'a University<br><br>HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="file:///C">file:///C</a>:\\Documents%20and%20Settings\\mo\\Desktop\\YCMES%20Web\\faculty_f<br>iles\\Saif%20Curriculum%20Vitae.doc" \nDr. Ahmed Abdulkareem Saif, Political<br>Scientist, Sana'a University/Saba' Center for Studies & Research<br><br>HYPERLINK "<a href="http://www.duke.edu/web/muslimnets/mcw_bio/bruce/index.htm">http://www.duke.edu/web/muslimnets/mcw_bio/bruce/index.htm</a>" \nDr.<br>Bruce Lawrence, Islamic Studies, Duke University<br><br>Dr. Jon Mandaville, Modern Middle East History, Portland State University<br><br>HYPERLINK "<a href="http://www.miriamcooke.com/">http://www.miriamcooke.com</a>" \nDr. miriam cooke, Arabic Literature<br>and Women's Studies, Duke University<br><br>HYPERLINK "<a href="http://arthist.binghamton.edu/um.html">http://arthist.binghamton.edu/um.html</a>" \nDr. Nancy Um, Islamic<br>Art and Architectural History, Binghamton University SUNY<br><br>The full class schedule and course offerings will be announced as time goes<br>on. Scheduled courses currently include: Comparative Politics of the Middle<br>East; Constitutional, Legislative, and Democratic Developments of the Arab<br>Gulf; History of Modern Arabia; History of Modern Iraq; Islamic Feminisms;<br>Autobiography of the Middle East; The Modern Muslim World; Religious<br>Minorities: Muslim & non-Muslim, Islamic Architecture and Urbanism in Yemen;<br>Cultural Anthropology of Yemen & the Middle East, etc.<br><br>To learn more about the PCMES, please visit HYPERLINK<br>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/pcmes.htm">http://www.ycmes.org/pcmes.htm</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/pcmes.htm">www.ycmes.org/pcmes.htm</a>.<br><br><br>Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies<br><a href="mailto:ycmes@ycmes.org">ycmes@ycmes.org</a><br>+967 1270 200 ext 101 (office)<br>+967 1270 127 (fax)<br>HYPERLINK "<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/">http://www.ycmes.org</a>"<a href="http://www.ycmes.org/">www.ycmes.org</a><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; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><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: 03 Jan 2008</div></body></html>