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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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‘Why not Arabic?’: MENA Languages program to launch Arabic minor in Fall Quarter

April 23, 2023

The Middle East and North African Languages program will launch an Arabic minor this upcoming Fall Quarter, the result of years of effort from students and the Arabic language faculty. The program currently...

Globe with purple arrows pointing from North America toward where Egypt and Palestine are located. Flags of Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait are pictured at the bottom in left to right order.

New petition calls on Global Learning Office to increase study abroad programs in MENA region

March 31, 2023

In 2011, Northwestern suspended its study abroad programs with The American University in Cairo and American University in Beirut after the start of the Arab Spring movement. Though the closings came...

Illustration of a white notebook with Arabic lettering in front of a teal background.

Northwestern’s Arabic professors implement new teaching approach to integrate speaking and writing skills

May 12, 2022

Communication freshman Rama Darayyad, a communications sciences and disorders student, hopes her major will help her travel abroad and provide hearing aids to kids in places like Lebanon and Jordan.  Darayyad...

Green background, white spiral notebook with Arabic word for “Arabic” printed on it. Black pen to the right of the notebook.

Students and faculty petition for an Arabic minor to increase cultural representation, reward learners

February 9, 2022

When Middle East and North African Languages Program Prof. Rana Raddawi started teaching at Northwestern, she said she was surprised there wasn’t any formal Arabic programming.  “(There should...

Bill Anthony, founding director of Northwestern’s Study Abroad Office, discusses his inaugural goals at a meeting in 1997. Anthony will step down from his post in July after a combined 30 years at the University as an educator and administrator.

Director, founder of Study Abroad Office to retire after 30 years at Northwestern

May 27, 2016

Bill Anthony comes from a long line of storytellers. Growing up with three siblings, his parents would read him the Sunday comics, from which he acquired a self-professed “irreverent” sense of humor....

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