The accommodation is modest and the charges very reasonable. This NCSA site provides the most comprehensive listing available of programs for study in Africa available to U.S. students. It also lists opportunities for volunteering, research, work, and touring in Africa. Courses include intensive language, thematic seminar, field study seminar, and an independent study project. SIT programs are available to college sophomores, juniors, or seniors, who are in good academic standing at any college or university and who have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 and at least one year of college-level coursework at the time of application.
Scholarships are available.
The American University in Cairo, The Arabic Language Institute . The Arabic Language Institute offers intensive Arabic language courses for students, businessmen, diplomats, scholars and others needing to gain a broad command of contemporary Arabic as quickly and as effectively as possible. For over sixty years, this program has attracted students form the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe, offering intensive courses in both modern standard and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Students who successfully completes the first year of intensive study with the Arabic Language Institute can expect to possess a working competence in reading and writing modern standard Arabic and understanding and speaking Egyptian colloquial or modern standard Arabic. Students who complete this second year should be able to read and write modern standard Arabic with some fluency, to pursue study in topics that specially interest them in Arabic, and o converse freely in Arabic.