Events (10)

On my way back from Washington, I could not resist taking a picture with President Obama!  That was a nice end to a pretty exciting short trip to Washington, D.C.  I stopped in London for 3 nights to visit my daughter who lives there, then returned happily to Cairo to resume my exciting work at Arab Academy.

It was wonderful to receive visitors to the Arab Academy booth then discover that some of them were my former students.  Nothing can be better than seeing your brilliant students, ever so intelligent and beautiful at MESA.  I was SO HAPPY TO MEET YOU ALL!!!  Thank you for passing by Arab Academy booth ya habaybi!!!  I hope we meet again soon!!! 

I was so happy to meet Mrs. Wissam Moula from Fairfax County, Virginia at MESA.  She had visited Arab Academy in Cairo, Egypt in the summer of 2008 to attend a Teacher Training Program.  She was so generous with her time and she and her daugther Judy, have graciously helped us prepare the Arab Academy booth at MESA and receive visitors. alf shukr ya wissam wa Judy!!!  Hope to see you again soon!

It was wonderful to meet Prof. Tawhida ElAskary from the University of Houston at MESA.  We had a meeting to discuss Arab Academy's program that is being used at U of H.  Tawhida is also in charge of alumni program of the American University in Cairo.  Being one of AUC's alumni we certainly had plenty to talk about.

Susan Blevins and Sanaa Ghanem arranged the Arab Academy booth.  It was so exciting to be working with Susan, an Arab Academy learner who volunteered to help on this booth.  She has also kindly prepared the Arab Academy banner and brought it with her.  We could not have done it without her.
I also liked the Arab Academy table cloth.  It was our designer Heba Abaza who bought it for us from Cairo.

It was an honor to receive Dr. Khalil Ennahoui, Arabic language consultant to the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah at the Arab Academy.  We discussed how Arab Academy can participate in the dissemination of Arabic language in West Africa.

Mr. Yasser Yamani, board member of Iqra visited Arab Academy to discuss cooperation venues.  Iqra sponsors needy schools in Africa and Asia that are interested in using Arab Academy's programs.  Dr. Ennahoui also joined the meeting.

This morning we have received Dr. Abdullah Almutani and Dr. Mohei Eddin Mihassib Professors of Arabic Language and Literature, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.  They will be spending 3 days at the Arab Academy on an appraisal mission.