بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Reading with the intention of improving one’s diction, or getting a feel for a language is permissible, of course. And summertime is the ideal moment to read, for me, since Allah has blessed me with summer vacation. And so, I found myself in a Borders bookstore in southern Florida a couple of [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Summer Reading
Posted in English on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SV 0035
Posted in English, Jeddah, Teaching on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Allah enabled my wife and me to travel from King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah to the International Airport of Dulles on the 19th of July. Our seats were in a row that seemed to have extra leg-room, sandwiched between a young couple with a two and a half month old baby, [...]
Harvard / Business / Planning
Posted in Teaching on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Allah blessed us to arrive safely and happily from Jeddah to tranquil Pompano Beach, via IAD via DCA via FLL Sunday night, as scheduled, right around 10 p.m. Incidently, according to ISNA, CrescentWatch and Arab News, it was the night of Miraj.
Expecting the Florida part of our vacation to be an occasion [...]
Elementary Reading Final Exam Results
Posted in English, Jeddah on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمدلله
Apropos of June 24, 2009:
الله enabled me to produce an original final exam from scratch over two days, and it was administered to five groups today. I proctored the exam for one of the two groups I had this semester and just ran the answer sheets through the test-marking device.
Elementary B – [...]
