Same with English classes for parents that the Alief Independent School District offered at all of its campuses. Another organization, the Bilingual Education Institute, extended classes free of charge to refugees for up to five years and often would set up shop in or near apartment complexes ...
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Example 3 (Zakia and Lanya's class 2): (Sorani, English, Arabic) 1 Lanya: It is too small to be counted 2 Lanya: (translation: Because sugar is too small, we can't count) 3 Lanya: (translation: Even in Kurdish we can't say one sugar, two sugar or three sugar. Do we say ...
Can class enable “Arab encounters” of a different kind and serve as a basis for political mobilization?3Unsettling “Refugees” as a CategoryLabeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in BeirutGustavo BarbosaThis open access edition has been made available under a...
but he treated his staff harshly, and at night he tried to relax by smoking hashish. He often beat Manu. The boy had a gift for languages, and he begged to be enrolled in a private English school, but his father refused. So Manu eventually learned English on his own, along with Itali...
All parties went free. Israel, America and Lebanon all played a role. Justice has not been done. A great deal of attention is paid to Gaza. Most organizations are focused on the situation there, and that is understandable. But the conditions in the camps in Lebanon are ignored altogether....
The camp’s inhabitants are free to go in and out. They take walks through town, past the parish church, the local supermarket, the fast-food place, the Jehovah’s Witnesses on the sidewalk handing out literature in Arabic, the railway station, the neighborhood pub. Farther on, they cross...
Congolese parent, “We need scientists, engineers, and people of all those professions because I feel like the world has advanced through those people”. For this parent, diversity is both necessary and beneficial. Another Congolese student shared: “I wish I had more Black kids in my class...
While some believed that being different in class had very minimal or no impact on their STEM and general academic lives, others thought that their differences, particularly their race and gender, had some level of influence on their academic life and success. One Burundian student remarked the ...