Arabic-L:PEDA:Waheed Sami Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing for Advanced Learners

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1) Subject: Waheed Sami Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing for Advanced
Learners

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Date: 21 Mar 2014
From: "Al-Batal, Mahmoud M" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Waheed Sami Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing for Advanced
Learners

To all Arabic teachers: We would like to ask you to share this announcement
with your colleagues and advanced-level students. Shukran

The Waheed Samy family and friends, The American University in Cairo (AUC),
and the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) are happy to announce the
2014 competition for The Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing
for advanced learners of Arabic.

This award was established in 2013  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. In
addition, he authored “Basic Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook” that is
scheduled to come out in May 2014.<
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Arabic-Grammar-Workbook-Workbooks/dp/0415587735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395319721&sr=8-1&keywords=waheed+samy
>

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 is 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 in Arabic.
§  Applicant needs to submit 3 representative samples of their writing.
Each sample needs to be between 500 and 1500 words. Essays in different
genres of writing (narrative, expository, persuasive, etc.) are highly
encouraged to demonstrate breadth of writing abilities.
§  Applicant needs to submit a 750 word essay addressing the 2014 writing
topic. The writing topic and submission guidelines are included at the
bottom of the Apply page on the web site (see link below).The essay must be
an individually-composed piece written with no editorial support in any
form.
§  Applicant needs to request a letter of endorsement from an Arabic
teacher familiar with her/his writing. The teacher’s letter should discuss
the applicant’s accomplishments in writing and verify that the samples
submitted are reflective of the applicant’s abilities in writing.  The
letter must be sent directly to the committee using the following email
address:    w.samy.writing.contest at gmail.com<mailto:
w.samy.writing.contest at gmail.com>

Applications: Where and when?

§  Students interested in participating need to visit the Waheed Samy Award
web site at
https://sites.google.com/a/aucegypt.edu/arabic-writing-contest/application
 where
they can download the application form, complete it, and send it to the
following email address:w.samy.writing.contest at gmail.com<mailto:
w.samy.writing.contest at gmail.com>
§  Students need to send their writing portfolio including the three
writing samples and the individual essay addressing the 2014 topic to the
above email address with "writing portfolio of ( name here).
§  Letters of endorsement from teachers must be sent directly by the
teacher to the same e-mail address.

·         Deadline for submitting applications and writing samples is June
15, 2014.

·         Award winner will be announced by September 2014

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

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Mahmoud Al-Batal
Professor of Arabic
Director, UT Arabic Flagship Program (AFP)
Acting Director, Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Calhoun Hall
204 W 21st Street, F9400
The University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Tel: (512)471-3463            Fax: (512)471-7834

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