Checkpoints
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
Characters confront the experience of dealing with multiple checkpoints as they travel throughout their country. Insecurity and chaos in some parts of Syria make it difficult to distinguish between opposition groups, regime forces, and bandits/terrorists.