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Near Eastern Languages and Literature J-Term 2022

Day 8!

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January 13, 2022

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Day 7!

January 13, 2022

To start off the day, we started by reviewing all of the lessons that we've learned so far. We started off with reviewing pronouns, and then the verb "To be" (Hastam). In addition to this, we reviewed the conjugations of Hastam with each of the pronouns, like: من آم (I am), شما استيد (You are), and many more! Afterwards, we started to learn some new vocabulary by looking at a conversation in Farsi. This was definitely a little bit difficult to grasp initially, but after a little bit of practice, it definitely got easier to say out loud. Dr. Dar and practice the conversation out loud, with each of us being one of the people in the conversation. The main vocabulary that I learned in this lecture were phrases and words like !سلم عليکم (Hello!), چطور (How), and many more! We continued to go through the conversation and reviewed it for awhile, before then going back to the previous lessons to review all of them again one more time! This was definitely a lot of information to ...

Day 3!

January 06, 2022

Compared to the last two days, today was a little bit more Arabic Literature heavy, as I started off the day by reading this article about Naguib Mahfouz , that was given to me as in-class work by Dr. Dar yesterday. The article talked about many different topics surrounding Mahfouz, specifically his adaptation of The Arabian Nights , and the meaning behind his ending of his adaptation of this story. While reading this article, one specific aspect of Mahfouz's life that I never thought about was the fact that he received a lot of threats, specifically from an Islamist group. I never thought that Mahfouz's stories would cause any group of people to become so angry like that, but it turns out that I was wrong, as mentioned in the article, Mahfouz was attacked by a member of this group on October 14th, 1994. This attack left him barely able to write as much as he used to. I also thought that Mahfouz didn't deserve to have this type of attack against him, as I still don't u...