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Course description
Levels
" Elementary Arabic
This course is designed to develop students' proficiency and communication in Modern Standard Arabic in the four basic skills: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Elementary Arabic (Part I) introduces learners to:
o Sound and writing systems of Arabic
o Basic grammar
o Basic vocabulary
o Basic sentence structures of Arabic
In order to be able to:
o Participate in basic conversational exchanges.
o Understand native speakers accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers of Arabic.
o Write notes, short letters and compositions describing daily events or personal experiences.
o Read basic texts on familiar topics such as weather, seasons, food, family, studies, and friends. Emphasis is placed on the functional use of language in the four basic skills. Cultural aspects are fully integrated in the course and are introduced through audio-visual materials.
This course is designed to develop students' proficiency and communication in Modern Standard Arabic in the four basic skills. At the intermediate level, more emphasis is placed on the reading and writing skills than the first level. The course introduces students to a wide variety of styles and genres from the classical and modern periods through authentic texts. It also continues to help develop students' listening and speaking skills through the use of authentic audio-video materials.
Arabic is the medium of instruction and communication.

Intermediate Arabic
Course Description
This course is designed to further develop students' proficiency and communication in Modern Standard Arabic in the four basic skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The main objective of this course is to enhance students' ability to understand Spoken Arabic, to converse on a variety of topics related to everyday life situations, narrate, discuss and read authentic materials.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand, speak, read and write at the upper Intermediate level.
o Arabic is the medium of instruction and communication
Advanced Arabic
Listening, speaking, reading and writing. The grammar of Arabic is dealt with in its communicative and functional contexts. Language lab and video sessions are integral to the teaching process and adequate time and effort are devoted to aural-oral activities whereby students practice Arabic via diversified activities ranging from distinguishing problematic Arabic sounds to listening to texts graded in their length, topic, sophistication of style , Lexis and authenticity. While listening in the lab or watching a video material, students write down notes on their work sheets. Such sessions are always followed by discussion or report writing. Video materials cover quite a wide range of films: cartoons, educational films, documentary films, culture-oriented films, historical films, etc.
Complementary to the above teacher - supervised materials, there is also free access resource materials center. The Language Center has established the Arabic Club (Multaqa) where non-native speakers of Arabic can always benefit from - they can read Arabic daily news papers, magazines, stories, textbooks ,language books, simplified Arabic novels, biography, simplified encyclopedias, use dictionaries, and watch films. Most of the time, the students come to the Club to read a book or to watch a film in order to write a report or to prepare for a presentation in the classroom.
Language and Culture in the Arab World
The trouble is that no one is quite sure what culture is. Not only is it an essentially contested concept, like democracy, religion, simplicity, or social justice; it is a multiply defined one, multiply employed, ineradicably imprecise. It is fugitive, unsteady, encyclopedic, and normatively charged".
"The image of a world full of people passionately fond of each other's cultures that they aspire to celebrate one another does not seem to me a clear and present danger; the image of one full of people happily apotheosizing their heroes and diabolizing their enemies alas does".
This introductory course seeks to offer a broad introduction to culture and cultural expressions in Arabic-speaking communities. It will also seek to explore language use as reflector and creator of Arab culture. Subjects to be discussed range from the micro-level of language choice or language use in daily life to the macro-level of national language policies within the domains of government and education across the Arabic-speaking world.
By examining the work of a number of writers from linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, political science and gender studies, we hope to consider such topics as Orientalism, the impact of colonial heritage on language and identity, language attitudes, cultural expressions as perceived by Western and Arab researchers, e.g., privacy, modesty, honor, politeness, veiling in the Muslim world, and Muslim space.

Our special courses:
1. course in the history of the Arab and Islamic world

2. Course in the politics of the Arab and Islamic world

3. Course in the geopolitics of the Arab and Islamic world

4. Course in literature of the Arab and Islamic world

5. Course in Islam