Arabic-L:GEN:Salim

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1) Subject: Salim
2) Subject: Khaldieh Scholarship

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Date: 30 Apr 2001
From: aattieh at mail.utexas.edu
Subject: Salim

Dear Colleagues:

It is with a great deal of sadness and sorrow that The American
Association of Teachers of Arabic mourn the passing of our colleague,
Dr. Salim Khaldieh, after a courageous battle for his health. Many of
us will miss him as a colleague, a friend and an acquaintance. Our
association and our field particularly will miss a champion of
empirical research and of the application of second language
acquisition theory in the study of Arabic as a foreign language. Most
of all, he will be missed by his family, his colleagues and students
in the Arabic program at Wayne State University.

May God bless his soul, and give strength and courage to his bereaved
family and friends. 'inna li-llah  wa-'inna 'ilayhi raaji'uun -³from
dust thou art and to dust thou shall return².

Sincerely,

Aman M. Attieh

PS. This condolence is long overdue; it was very difficult for me to
write it due to the severity of the tragedy.

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2)
Date: 30 Apr 2001
From: "Muhammad S. Eissa" <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject: Khaldieh Scholarship

Dear Khaldieh's colleagues and friends:

     Last Thursday Wayne State University held a memorial service for our
dear colleague and friend Salim Khalieh. It was well attended and memory
evoking. Many top administrators who knew Salim by name only had the chance
to hear and feel how much of a positive effect Salim had on his colleagues
and students. I was so touched by the spontaneous reaction of many of his
students to stood up and volunteered to say few words. They spoke in much
the same joy, vivaciousness and humor they used to have when Salim spoke
with them. It was an occasion to remember and to reflect on how much of
cheerful memories last in people's hearts and minds.

     At the end of the memorial everyone was reminded of the establishment
of Salim Khaldieh's scholarship fund. I would like to urge everyone to:
Please do your share and contribute to the fund so that Salim's name would
not be forgotten. We owe it to him, to our profession and to ourselves as
well. I am confident that all of you want to do something, so please seize
the moment and let not those hundreds of little things in your mind
distract you from sending your contribution. Here is the information again
in case it was lost in the last cleaning up you did to your mail:

                      Dr. Aleya Rouchdy,
                      Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies,
                      Wayne State University,
                      Manoogian Hall,
                      Detroit,  MI 48202

       Tax deductible checks should be made payable to:

                WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY - SALIM KHALDIEH FUND

     Please remember Salim in your prayers.
     salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa


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