Program

Education Programs: Seminars for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/2009 - 9/30/2010

Funding Totals

$121,439.00 (approved)
$121,439.00 (awarded)


The Arabic Novel in Translation

FAIN: FV-50221-09

Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390)
Roger Allen (Project Director: March 2009 to February 2011)

A four-week school teacher seminar for sixteen participants to explore the Arabic novel.

This seminar will introduce the participants to a literary tradition with which relatively few high-school teachers in this country are familiar, that of Arabic, and more specifically to modern Arabic fiction and its cultural context.