Students worked on learning Arabic songs and folk dancing. Students read selections from modern literary works in fiction and poetry.
Students read and discussed various Arabic texts from early and medieval periods.
Students watched an Arabic film every week and discussed its cultural and artistic content. Students produced a bi-weekly wall newspaper with news, editorials, jokes, entertainment, etc. Students in this club produced a weekly one-hour Arabic radio program that was broadcast on the Middlebury College radio station. The program included interviews, local and international news, weather, and music. Our students learn the art of Arabic cooking from their teachers who hail from several different countries in the Arab World.