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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Bringing Arabic to Iowa

Zahra Al-Attar may be from Iraq, but her teaching is in Iowa. The Baghdad native responded to a flyer she saw posted in her mosque to teach in a tiny Iowa town that is used to paper candy canes and christmas carols--not arabic folk songs.

Check out the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/education/02education.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin

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