Mr Muhanned’s Poetry Club

Mr Muhanned was a much loved teacher who worked for the Zaki Al-Arsuzi School in Syria before the war began. He taught the rich tradition of Arabic poetry as part of the national curriculum but wanted to start an extra curricula poetry club for his students to write and showcase their own poetry. Mr Muhanned is a teacher in all senses of …

SPEAK

At home, most Syrians speak dialects of Levantine Arabic. South Syrian Arabic is mostly spoken in the cities of Damascus, Homs and Hama, and Tartous and North Syrian Arabic is mostly spoken in the region of Aleppo. Arabic is a Semitic language, and shares linguistic and phonological similarities with other Semitic languages such as Syriac, Aramaic and Hebrew. Modern Standard Arabic is the …

GIRL p o e t

Assignment three - Design a learning space for the future that addresses the needs of young learners in a refugee camp. I have changed my mind many times trying to decide upon a concept for this project. I very much wanted to do this task justice but I feel overwhelmed at the magnitude of what life must be like …