No Destruction! We Want Reforms!
Arabic Learning in Context - Syria from Peaceful Reform to Civil War - Abdelkader Berrahmoun
Abdelkader Berrahmoun [+]
Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California
Abdelkader Berrahmoun is Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and served as Summer Intensive Arabic Coordinator at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Professor Berrahmoun is a native of Oran, Algeria. He began his career as a language professor in Boston, Massachusetts, where he taught Arabic and French at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Smith College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College and a number of other educational institutions.
Description
Introduces the eruption of the popular uprising in Daraa, Syria, in which government security agents of President Bashar al-Assad arrest and torture children who painted anti-Bashar graffiti on school walls. Popular protests erupt. Invented characters recount their first-hand views of this historic event, offering opinions about the root causes and potential direction of the newly emerging movement.