<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 06 April 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Travel Advisories and Study Abroad in the ME<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 06 April 2011<br>From: Uri Horesh <<a href="mailto:uri.horesh@fandm.edu">uri.horesh@fandm.edu</a>><br>Subject: Travel Advisories and Study Abroad in the ME<br><br><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Some officials in my college have recently been questioning the practice of sending students to countries such as Lebanon and Syria, citing State Department travel advisories. I would like to convince them that it is still responsible to send students to places like Beirut and Aleppo. </div><div><br></div><div>Can any of you provide some brief supporting evidence that distinguished U.S.-based institutions still allow their students to travel to such countries?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Uri</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Uri Horesh</div><div>Director, Arabic Language Program</div><div>Modern Languages</div><div>Franklin & Marshall College</div><div>PO Box 3003</div><div>Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 </div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 06 April 2011</body></html>