بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
Advanced Listening students this morning were for the most part satisfied with their midterm exam results, as was I: One failure out of 14 students in Section C. Class average: 74 %. (Section B, with 19 students, averaged 76 % and had two failing scores.)
After going through the test, we started the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
An Amusing Character from Arab Folklore
Posted in Teaching on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Homeland Dead? Imagine.
Posted in Jeddah on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
Nabokov wrote, “I am the perfect dictator in that private world insofar as I alone am responsible for its stability and truth.” But he was a strong spirit, a man who refused to bow to the blows of chance and external forces. Khrushcheva herself notes, “It is hard just to live for [...]
A Friend’s Perspective of Jadda
Posted in Jeddah on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
“One of the friends [of God]– may God be pleased with them — to whom the mysteries had been revealed said, “I saw all the harbours prostrate themselves before ‘Abadan, and I saw ‘Abadan prostrate itself before Jadda.”
- from Imam ‘Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali’s كتاب اسرار الحج, translated by Ibrahim Umar (1975).
الحمدُ [...]
Basic English Grammar Third Edition
Posted in Teaching on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
بِسمِ اللهِ الرحمن الرحيم
Just got out of two periods (100 minutes) of a Preparatory (level one) Grammar class that had 20 students in it. Among today’s benefits is that things seemed to be gelling in a new way that is perhaps worth documenting:
First of all, the course syllabus requires that all exercises in chapters one, [...]
