Four alumni of Notre Dame’s international economics program returned to campus in March to speak to current students about their experience with the major, valuable classes they took, and the skills they developed that are now paying dividends in the real world.
Congratulations to Professor Guada Bualuan, whose new textbook, Stories from One Thousand and One Nights: For Intermediate and Advanced, is now available for pre-order on Routledge and Amazon.
Dr. Li Guo has been invited to chair an international conference, "The Study of Red Sea in Global Perspective," to be held at Shanghai International Studies University, China, May 28-29, 2018.…
Dr. Hussein Abdulsater presented a paper on “Muʿtazilism Ignored, Espoused and Negotiated,” Shiʿi Studies: State of the Art, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, December 2017 (by invitation).…
Dr. Li Guo will present a paper titled, "Egyptian Shadow Play Jargons: In Light of Manuscript Evidence" on March 16, 2018 at the American Oriental Society Annual Meeting (March 15-18).…
Raghdaa Abou-SerieSawy's tutoring hours for Spring 2018 are Mondays 5:00-6:00 and Thursdays 12:30-3:30. Sign up in the CSLC in 329 DeBartolo Hall.…
Notre Dame's Arabic Club is selling shirts that say "Play Like a Champion" in Arabic for $15.
Need a language tutor? The CSLC offers free peer tutoring for all degree-seeking students. Sign up at cslc.nd.edu.…
Raghdaa Saber Abou-Serie Sawy has joined the Program in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies for the 2017-18 academic year. Raghdaa, an FLTA student from Cairo, Egypt will be assisting the current faculty in the classroom.
Raghdaa graduated from Ain Shams University, Egypt. She majored in the English language. She obtained her MA in translation and linguistics from the same university. Raghdaa is currently working on her PhD dissertation in translation. Her dissertation is a contrastive study of metaphor in two translations of Mostaghanemiy's novel "Memory in the Flesh" adopting Semino's and Toury's approaches. Raghdaa was granted the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching assistant scholarship for the academic year 2017-18.…
First day of Classes at Notre Dame, Tuesday, August 22, 2017.…
A Sky Full Of Stars is the story of Dahlia, a young pensive girl who enjoyed reading and writing but never pursued it in depth.
Notre Dame senior Sienna Wdowik knows exactly the type of job she wants after graduation. Her two majors in the College of Arts and Letters and multiple international experiences, internships, and research projects will help her land it. “It’s really important to me to find a position where I can serve my country and use the knowledge that I have to do counterterrorism work,” she said. For Wdowik, majoring in political science and Arabic was the perfect way to prepare for that.
Professor Hussein Abdulsater's forthcoming book "Shi'i Doctrine, Mu'tazili Theology: al-Sharif al-Murtada and Imami Discourse" has been announced for publication in June 2017 by the Edinburgh University Press. The book will examine the critical turn that shaped Imami Shi'ism in the 10th and 11th centuries.
"Being an Arabic major has led me to learn a rich language, giving me the opportunity to encounter new people and ideas about the world in places I never would have expected to find myself," said Molly Herber '13, now a writer for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming.
Victoria Braga is now a judicial law clerk in the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sponsored by the Hesburgh Libraries and the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), the ULRA competition honors those who conduct original research and draws focus to the extensive sources and methods of scholarly inquiry that modern-day research libraries offer today’s students.
Ghada Bualuan, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Arabic program, was one of 11 faculty members from the College of Arts and Letters who won 2016 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, and the recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations
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Before Li Guo could tell the story of one of Islam’s most impactful artists, he spent nearly 15 years translating and studying the man’s work. A professor of Arabic and director of Notre Dame’s Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program, Guo is the author of The Performing Arts of Medieval Islam: Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal’s Mamluk Cairo, which won the 2015 Prize for Research from the Institut International De La Marionnette (IIM) in northern France. Guo’s book details the life and work of Ibn Daniyal, a 13th-century eye doctor who wrote a number of shadow plays—an ancient storytelling form involving flat puppets—depicting life in medieval Cairo.
Two juniors in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, Caleb “C.J.” Pine and Christa Grace Watkins, have been named 2016 Truman Scholars. Established in 1975 as a living memorial to President Harry S. Truman, the prestigious scholarship includes $30,000 in graduate study funds, priority admission and supplemental financial aid at select institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling, and internship opportunities within the federal government. Just 54 college juniors have been selected as Truman Scholars this year from a pool of 775 nominees.