بسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
“I think that the literature in English emerging from the Indian subcontinent is some of the strongest, the finest. We should have no doubt about that, or the future of its texts.” – Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor of English, Yale University.
- from an interview with Muneeza Shamsie in Newsline, March 2004, accessible [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Literature in English
Posted in English on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Market Value of Apartment
Posted in Jeddah on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
Allah decreed U.S. citizenship for me along with a tax home overseas. Allah has also decreed that I spend most of the year outside the U.S., and when filing a tax return, I sometimes have had to consider a form called the 2555, for my foreign-earned income exclusion. Going through it while [...]
Intermediate Listening
Posted in Teaching on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
Allah has blessed the students in (the two sections of) Intermediate Listening with a success rate of around 95 % this session (168). 49 out of 52 students passed.
الحمدُ لِله
Assessment is part of teaching.
Posted in Teaching on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمنِ الرحيم
Allah has blessed me and the students in the classes that I’ve been entrusted with, with Moodle, and this session, we’ve thus far also been blessed with chances to use it several times a week (in three different subjects: Advanced Reading, Intermediate Listening, and Elementary Grammar), so an observation or two has [...]
