In this intensive online course, students develop advanced discourse skills and expand the range of genres in which they are proficient, by working with experts from the Arab world to explore important contemporary themes. Students who complete the course successfully will develop solid advanced skills and will reach a global proficiency of Advanced High or Superior
In 2022, the course will be led by musicologist, long-time TV host, and former Syrian Minister of Tourism, Dr. Saadallah Agha Alkalaa of the University of Damascus and by renowned Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany.
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0:08 My name is Alaa Al Aswany.
0:10 I am an Egyptian writer and novelist.
0:14 My literary works have been translated into 37 languages,
0:21 published and read in a hundred countries around the world,
0:26 and received many international literary prizes.
0:33 This summer, I will teach creative writing and reading fiction at Indiana University.
0:43 In this course, students will first learn basic concepts in literature:
0:51 the meaning, function, and types of literature.
0:56 Second: Methods and techniques of creative writing in the Arabic language.
1:03 Third: Procedures for reading fiction and analysis of selected texts from contemporary Arabic literature.
1:13 This course will be useful to students of the Arabic language because it will enable them to master the language by studying Arabic literature.
1:28 This class will also be useful for those interested in Arab society.
1:36 There is nothing better than literature to understand the customs, traditions, ways of thinking, and problems of any society.
1:47 Of course, this course will be necessary for novice writers,
1:54 as they are trained in the techniques of literary writing, the rules of writing a short story and novel, and the analysis of literary texts.
2:08 I have taught this class at Bard College,
2:16 Dartmouth College, Princeton University,
2:20 and I am glad to be teaching it at Indiana University.
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0:07 Hello, everyone.
0:09 I would like first to express my pleasure as I participate in teaching one of the courses of the language workshop at Indiana University,
0:16 Where we will go together on a pleasant journey through time to a bygone era,
0:22 in which the Arab and Islamic civilization flourished,
0:25 to discover that the manifestations of scientific, artistic and aesthetic creativity in that civilization
0:30 was governed by a single intellectual umbrella,
0:35 which still finds its echo in various modern scientific discoveries,
0:40 namely: The Unity of creation,
0:43 Of course, we will recognize the first integrated theory, which linked the different influence of melodies and colors
0:50 on mood, behavior, and the human body,
0:54 with the change of seasons and hours of the day !
0:58 There is no doubt that the broadening of the spectrum of these topics will provide an opportunity to enrich your vocabulary of the Arabic language,
1:06 and will allow you to view a bright period in the history of human culture, which history books often neglected!
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies