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Arabic for Social Justice

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Arabic skills, and critically engage with various cultural productions in Arabic, including films, TV series, newsreels, short stories, and songs. 

These courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in the U.S. and the Arab world. 

Selected participants will be contacted by our instructors on a rolling basis and until a week before classes start. Late applications will be considered if spots are made available. If you have any questions, you can write to us at [email protected] 

For more information about our language services, visit www.algarabialanguage.com and follow us on Instagram!

Intermediate Arabic Film Club: Modern Arab History (virtual)

• This 6-week workshop is designed for students who have taken at least one year of Arabic classes, and priority is for Heritage Speakers of Arabic. Homework includes watching films, translating transcripts of colloquial film dialogues, song lyrics, reading social media, writing film, scene, and character descriptions.
• Sessions will include a political education component and feature films that depict key moments in modern Arab history—including European colonialism, World Wars I and II, independence movements, the Palestinian Nakba, the Arab Naksa, and the Gulf wars.
• Virtual: Sundays, starting July 27 – 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST (6 weeks)
• Cost of class $150-$200 sliding scale.* 

*$250 if contribution is paid for by work stipend instead of individual participants.

We are also offering Beginner Arabic Classes that begins on July 5. More info in the registration form. 

NOTE:  As part of Algarabía’s mission to make our courses accessible, we have sliding-scale rate options and payment plans available. Once you complete the application and are selected, you will be given the opportunity to apply to these discounted rates individually.

ABOUT US:

At Algarabía Language Co-op, we see language learning as a meaningful, collaborative and transformative process, reflected in our training in hands-on communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and our use of popular education in the language classroom. We seek to support the holistic development of all language learners as they become competent multilingual speakers. We devise classroom activities and use textbooks and other original didactic materials that meet our participants’ needs and that represent the linguistic and racial/ethnic diversity of the Spanish- and Arabic-speaking worlds.