Arabic-L:PEDA:The Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing

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1) Subject:The Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing

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Date: 08 Mar 2013
From:"Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:The Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing

To all Arabic teachers: Please share this announcement with your colleagues
and advanced-level students.
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The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Center for Arabic Study
Abroad (CASA) are happy to announce the launch of The Waheed Samy Award for
Excellence in Arabic Writing for advanced learners of Arabic.
This award is established in honor of Dr. Waheed Samy who was member of the
Arabic faculty at the University of Michigan, the CASA program, and the
Arabic Language Institute at AUC. During his teaching tenure at these
institutions, Dr. Samy devoted much of his time and energy to teaching
writing and he authored Arabic Writing for Style: al-kitaba wa-l-uslub
(1999) as a resource for prospective writers of Arabic. Dr. Samy passed
away unexpectedly in February 2011 causing the field of Arabic to lose a
teacher of great talents and remarkable commitment and devotion. It is our
hope that this award will help commemorate Dr. Samy's memory and enhance
the position of writing as a main ingredient of Arabic learning.
The award will be presented annually to a student of Arabic as a
Foreign/Second Language who has distinguished herself/himself in the area
of writing. Competition for the award will be open to students in Arabic
programs in the US and abroad. Recipient of the award will receive $1,000
dollars and a commemorative plaque in recognition of their outstanding
achievement in Arabic writing.
We invite all students of Arabic at the higher levels of proficiency to
apply and we call upon teachers of Arabic worldwide to encourage their
students to apply.

Requirements:

§  Applicant must be enrolled in a regular academic program or an Arabic
language program.

§  Applicant must possess a minimum of Advanced-High (2+) proficiency or
higher.

§  Applicant needs to submit 3 representative samples of their writing.
Each sample needs to be between 400 and 2500 words. Essays in different
genres of writing (narrative, expository, persuasive, etc.) are highly
encouraged to demonstrate breadth of writing abilities.

§  Applicant will be required to sit for a proctored writing activity
(about 2.5 hrs.) in which s/he will be asked to choose one of two topics
and write about it.



Applications: Where and when?



§  Application forms are available at the following web site:
https://sites.google.com/a/aucegypt.edu/arabic-writing-contest/. Applicants
can download the application and fill them out then send them to the e-mail
address specified on the web site.

§  A letter of endorsement from an Arabic teacher familiar with the
student's writing needs to be sent to the committee via the e-mail address
indicated on the website.

§  Deadline for submitting applications and writing samples is April 20,
2013.

§  Sit in writing activity is set for May 3, 2013.

§  Award winner will be announced by June 30, 2013.

§  Award will be presented in October 2013 at the MESA conference in New
Orleans.

For questions and inquiries, please contact Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal at
albatal at austin.uteaxs.edu<mailto:albatal at austin.uteaxs.edu>

For further information and to download application and submit your writing
samples, please visit the award's web site at:

https://sites.google.com/a/aucegypt.edu/arabic-writing-contest/application

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