Corinne Stokes
Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: MA in Arabic Studies and PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, linguistics, and pedagogy; music, popular culture, and social media; linguistic diversity and and language ideologies, intercultural and multilingual approaches in teaching, curriculum design

Corinne Stokes is a senior lecturer in Arabic at New York University Abu Dhabi. She earned her MA in Arabic Studies in 2012 and her PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in 2016 from the University of Texas at Austin. Before her graduate work, she studied at the Berklee College of Music and the American University in Cairo and earned a BA in Religious Studies and Music at the University of Miami. Stokes’ research interests are in sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, dialectology, pedagogy, and popular culture studies. Her work in curriculum design seeks to incorporate intercultural, multimodal, and multilingual perspectives in language and culture teaching. Her research has been supported by the US Department of Education’s GAANN and FLAS fellowship programs and the University of Texas at Austin's Graduate School and Department of Middle Eastern Studies. For the 2014-15 academic year, she was awarded a Fulbright-mtvU grant to research linguistic and cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi’s contemporary music scene.
Courses Taught
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The spring semester of the ACS Senior Capstone is composed of the student working in close consultation with a faculty member on their capstone project. It is expected that the student will meet weekly with their advisor.
Prerequisite: ACS-UH 4000
Previously taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Justin Stearns - Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This course is designed for learners with no prior knowledge of Arabic. Students who have studied Arabic before or who have prior knowledge of Arabic are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students first learn the Arabic alphabet, then move on to work on the sentence and paragraph levels. It is an interactive course designed to build the student’s abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the semester students should be able to carry on a short conversation; ask and answer questions; introduce themselves and others; provide simple biographical information; interact in simple daily life situations; ask for assistance; express likes and dislikes; read short texts; and gain a basic understanding of Arab culture. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, brief presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam.
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 15:35 - 16:50 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Summer 2025;
4 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 13:00 - 15:00; MTWRF 10:00 - 12:00; F 14:20 - 16:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 12:45 - 14:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 14:10 - 15:25 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 12:45 - 14:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 1 (ARABL-UH 1110) which is a prerequisite course for this class. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning formal Arabic (MSA), expand their knowledge of the grammar, build on previously learnt vocabulary, and be exposed to a variety of cultural and daily life themes and situations. It is an interactive course designed to build the student’s abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the semester students should be able to read texts on familiar topics and understand the main ideas; speak about themselves and their environment; carry out basic daily life transactions; and initiate and sustain conversations on a variety of topics. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, brief presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 1110 or satisfactory result in Arabic language proficiency assessment
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 2 This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 2 (ARABL-UH 1120) which is a prerequisite course for this class. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning the modern standard form of the language, with limited exposure to phrases and expressions in colloquial. It is a student-centered course where the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) are integrated along with culture to simulate real life situations. By the end of this course, students should be able to narrate in all verb tenses, describe their daily life, personal relations, and report information. Types of tasks and assignments required include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, essays, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 1120
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
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Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTWR 08:30 - 09:45 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
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Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Intermediate Arabic 1 which is a prerequisite course for this class. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning the modern standard form of the language, with limited exposure to phrases and expressions in colloquial. It is a student-centered course where the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) are integrated along with culture to simulate real life situations. At the end of the semester students should be able to read and understand the main ideas of authentic texts written for the general public. They will be able to employ analytical reading and critical thinking skills to understand different types of text. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > African Studies > Arts and Humanities Electives
- Minors > Arabic
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This course complements the student’s knowledge of Standard Arabic to include proficiency in Egyptian Arabic, one of the major Arabic dialects, with emphasis on daily life tasks, conversational fluency, and cultural sensibility. A prerequisite for this class is Intermediate Arabic 2 or an equivalent proficiency level as determined through a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) conversation-based course during which students focus on the communicative skills, and develop automated production skills necessary to function in an Arabic speaking environment. It is designed to build student’s abilities in listening and speaking. At the end of the semester students should be able to use the Egyptian dialect to participate actively in informal conversations by using language and cultural expressions to make requests, express, and describe preferences. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, weekly brief presentations and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTW 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This is an introductory course in Emirati dialect and culture designed for students who have completed Intermediate Arabic I. In contrast with the MSA sequence, which focuses on traditional literacy, this course adheres to the communicative method and focuses on fluency in conversation, accuracy in pronunciation, and the stimulation of intercultural competence. Through extensive and intensive listening, at-home recording, and in-class role play and interaction, the course creates an immersive environment to help students develop the production skills necessary to function among Emirati speakers in a variety of settings. Students will have the opportunity to interact with guest lecturers from a variety of fields, to work with language partners, and to visit a number of cultural sites in the UAE.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
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Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Manal Mohamed Al Marzooqi - MTW 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
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Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
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The course is designed to help students reach an advanced level of proficiency through analysis of authentic Arabic texts addressing a wide range of political, social, religious, and literary themes. A prerequisite for this course is Intermediate Arabic 2 or, for students joining from outside NYU Abu Dhabi, an equivalent proficiency level as determined through a placement test. The course emphasizes integrating the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the course students should be able to understand the main ideas and supporting arguments of authentic oral and written texts; draw conclusions about the author’s attitude; employ analytical reading and critical thinking; analyze various linguistic aspects in a text; and evaluate the content and organizational aspects of a specialized article. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, essay writing, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2120
Previously taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTW 08:30 - 09:45 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MW 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > African Studies > Arts and Humanities Electives
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
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This is an advanced-level content course in Arabic designed around the reading of Saud Al Sanousi's novel, The Bamboo Stalk. The course conceives of the novel as a lens onto a rich array of social issues in the contemporary Gulf. As students follow the protagonist's attempts to understand his hybrid identity, they explore broader questions of cultural, linguistic, and religious difference in the Gulf's Arab communities. Through a combination of class discussions, collaborative research into historical details, guest lectures, and social media resources, students will have the chance to contextualize the novel's themes and link them to their own experiences. Students are expected to reach advanced-mid proficiency by the end of the term.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2120
Previously taught: Fall 2023
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
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A handful of languages - English, French, Spanish, and in some regions Russian, Arabic and Mandarin - are becoming 'world languages', used internationally and widely acquired as additional languages. Since human communities always develop some common medium of communication, this reflects the emergence of wider transnational or global communities. But it also reflects and ratifies disparities of power, conferring great privilege to the nations and native speakers of the world languages, and disadvantage to non-speakers. What are the implications of linguistic imperialism for the other six thousand or so human languages, and the billions of people who do not speak a world language? Many minority languages are losing speakers and becoming endangered or extinct. Educational failure and economic exclusion are widespread among those compelled to function in an unfamiliar world language. This course explores the processes and consequences of linguistic imperialism. We discuss issues of language maintenance and shift, language politics, multilingual education, and linguistic human rights. We examine the tension between the utilitarian role of language in enabling communication with an ever-wider community, and its powerful social role as an expression of culture and of community and personal identity.
Prerequisite: Must be an NYU Abu Dhabi student and have not completed the Core: Colloquium requirement.
Previously taught: Spring 2020, Spring 2023
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Colloquia
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This course examines linguistic diversity and urban multilingualism with the UAE as its primary case study. Which are the most and least visible of the UAE's linguistic varieties, and why? Which hold prestige, for whom, and in which contexts? How might it differ to move around the city in English, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, or Tagalog? What strategies do speakers use to communicate when they cannot fully understand one another? We address these and many other questions to examine language ideologies and official discourses about linguistic diversity, language use in public spaces, planning and policy, and language in education and the workplace. Through research activities and co-curricular visits to sites around the UAE, students will have the opportunity to observe, record, and upload linguistic data to a class database. This data collection will culminate in a series of multimodal research projects on Abu Dhabi's linguistic landscape and soundscape.
Previously taught: January 2023
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Data and Discovery
- Core Curriculum > Experimental Inquiry
- Core Curriculum > Quantitative Reasoning
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies > Arts and Literature
- Minors > Anthropology
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This course combines theory with intensive listening to examine popular songs in the Arabic-speaking world from the 1950's to the present. Students will develop familiarity with a wide range of Arab singers and their work by way of audiovisual playlists, scholarly and journalistic writing, and social media commentary. The course will introduce basic theoretical issues in popular music studies to provide students with tools for engaging in analysis and writing. We will begin with an exploration of cross-linguistic classification of musical genres and ideologies of the popular and continue to study the ways in which music is linked to political, cultural, religious, and economic forces. The primary forms of assessment are weekly listening quizzes, periodic entries in a shared class blog, and a mid-term and final paper. We will begin with an exploration of cross-linguistic classification of musical genres and ideologies of the popular and continue to study the ways in which music is linked to political, cultural, religious, and economic forces. The primary forms of assessment are weekly listening quizzes, periodic entries in a shared class blog, and a mid-term and final paper.
Previously taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Cultural Exploration and Analysis
- Core Curriculum > Islamic Studies
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies > Arts and Literature
- Majors > Music
- Majors > Music > Music Studies Track
Courses
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The spring semester of the ACS Senior Capstone is composed of the student working in close consultation with a faculty member on their capstone project. It is expected that the student will meet weekly with their advisor.
Prerequisite: ACS-UH 4000
Previously taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Justin Stearns - Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course is designed for learners with no prior knowledge of Arabic. Students who have studied Arabic before or who have prior knowledge of Arabic are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students first learn the Arabic alphabet, then move on to work on the sentence and paragraph levels. It is an interactive course designed to build the student’s abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the semester students should be able to carry on a short conversation; ask and answer questions; introduce themselves and others; provide simple biographical information; interact in simple daily life situations; ask for assistance; express likes and dislikes; read short texts; and gain a basic understanding of Arab culture. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, brief presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam.
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 15:35 - 16:50 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Summer 2025;
4 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 13:00 - 15:00; MTWRF 10:00 - 12:00; F 14:20 - 16:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 12:45 - 14:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTWR 14:10 - 15:25 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 12:45 - 14:00 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 1 (ARABL-UH 1110) which is a prerequisite course for this class. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning formal Arabic (MSA), expand their knowledge of the grammar, build on previously learnt vocabulary, and be exposed to a variety of cultural and daily life themes and situations. It is an interactive course designed to build the student’s abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the semester students should be able to read texts on familiar topics and understand the main ideas; speak about themselves and their environment; carry out basic daily life transactions; and initiate and sustain conversations on a variety of topics. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, brief presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 1110 or satisfactory result in Arabic language proficiency assessment
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
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Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Khulood Kittaneh - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 2 This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Elementary Arabic 2 (ARABL-UH 1120) which is a prerequisite course for this class. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning the modern standard form of the language, with limited exposure to phrases and expressions in colloquial. It is a student-centered course where the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) are integrated along with culture to simulate real life situations. By the end of this course, students should be able to narrate in all verb tenses, describe their daily life, personal relations, and report information. Types of tasks and assignments required include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, essays, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 1120
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
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Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTWR 08:30 - 09:45 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
-
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course builds on the knowledge and skills that students acquire in Intermediate Arabic 1 which is a prerequisite course for this class. Students joining the course from outside NYU Abu Dhabi are required to take a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) course during which students continue learning the modern standard form of the language, with limited exposure to phrases and expressions in colloquial. It is a student-centered course where the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) are integrated along with culture to simulate real life situations. At the end of the semester students should be able to read and understand the main ideas of authentic texts written for the general public. They will be able to employ analytical reading and critical thinking skills to understand different types of text. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, short essay writing, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MTWR 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MTWR 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > African Studies > Arts and Humanities Electives
- Minors > Arabic
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This course complements the student’s knowledge of Standard Arabic to include proficiency in Egyptian Arabic, one of the major Arabic dialects, with emphasis on daily life tasks, conversational fluency, and cultural sensibility. A prerequisite for this class is Intermediate Arabic 2 or an equivalent proficiency level as determined through a placement test. This is a full semester (or equivalent session) conversation-based course during which students focus on the communicative skills, and develop automated production skills necessary to function in an Arabic speaking environment. It is designed to build student’s abilities in listening and speaking. At the end of the semester students should be able to use the Egyptian dialect to participate actively in informal conversations by using language and cultural expressions to make requests, express, and describe preferences. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, weekly brief presentations and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Omima El Araby - MTW 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This is an introductory course in Emirati dialect and culture designed for students who have completed Intermediate Arabic I. In contrast with the MSA sequence, which focuses on traditional literacy, this course adheres to the communicative method and focuses on fluency in conversation, accuracy in pronunciation, and the stimulation of intercultural competence. Through extensive and intensive listening, at-home recording, and in-class role play and interaction, the course creates an immersive environment to help students develop the production skills necessary to function among Emirati speakers in a variety of settings. Students will have the opportunity to interact with guest lecturers from a variety of fields, to work with language partners, and to visit a number of cultural sites in the UAE.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2110
Previously taught: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
-
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Manal Mohamed Al Marzooqi - MTW 11:20 - 12:35 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
-
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
-
The course is designed to help students reach an advanced level of proficiency through analysis of authentic Arabic texts addressing a wide range of political, social, religious, and literary themes. A prerequisite for this course is Intermediate Arabic 2 or, for students joining from outside NYU Abu Dhabi, an equivalent proficiency level as determined through a placement test. The course emphasizes integrating the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At the end of the course students should be able to understand the main ideas and supporting arguments of authentic oral and written texts; draw conclusions about the author’s attitude; employ analytical reading and critical thinking; analyze various linguistic aspects in a text; and evaluate the content and organizational aspects of a specialized article. Types of tasks and assignments required for this course include daily homework assignments, periodic quizzes, presentations, essay writing, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2120
Previously taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
Laila Familiar - MTW 08:30 - 09:45 Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2025;
14 Weeks
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil - MW 09:55 - 11:10 Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > African Studies > Arts and Humanities Electives
-
Spring 2025;
14 Weeks
-
This is an advanced-level content course in Arabic designed around the reading of Saud Al Sanousi's novel, The Bamboo Stalk. The course conceives of the novel as a lens onto a rich array of social issues in the contemporary Gulf. As students follow the protagonist's attempts to understand his hybrid identity, they explore broader questions of cultural, linguistic, and religious difference in the Gulf's Arab communities. Through a combination of class discussions, collaborative research into historical details, guest lectures, and social media resources, students will have the chance to contextualize the novel's themes and link them to their own experiences. Students are expected to reach advanced-mid proficiency by the end of the term.
Prerequisite: ARABL-UH 2120
Previously taught: Fall 2023
This course appears in...
- Language > Arabic
- Minors > Arabic
-
A handful of languages - English, French, Spanish, and in some regions Russian, Arabic and Mandarin - are becoming 'world languages', used internationally and widely acquired as additional languages. Since human communities always develop some common medium of communication, this reflects the emergence of wider transnational or global communities. But it also reflects and ratifies disparities of power, conferring great privilege to the nations and native speakers of the world languages, and disadvantage to non-speakers. What are the implications of linguistic imperialism for the other six thousand or so human languages, and the billions of people who do not speak a world language? Many minority languages are losing speakers and becoming endangered or extinct. Educational failure and economic exclusion are widespread among those compelled to function in an unfamiliar world language. This course explores the processes and consequences of linguistic imperialism. We discuss issues of language maintenance and shift, language politics, multilingual education, and linguistic human rights. We examine the tension between the utilitarian role of language in enabling communication with an ever-wider community, and its powerful social role as an expression of culture and of community and personal identity.
Prerequisite: Must be an NYU Abu Dhabi student and have not completed the Core: Colloquium requirement.
Previously taught: Spring 2020, Spring 2023
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Colloquia
-
This course examines linguistic diversity and urban multilingualism with the UAE as its primary case study. Which are the most and least visible of the UAE's linguistic varieties, and why? Which hold prestige, for whom, and in which contexts? How might it differ to move around the city in English, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, or Tagalog? What strategies do speakers use to communicate when they cannot fully understand one another? We address these and many other questions to examine language ideologies and official discourses about linguistic diversity, language use in public spaces, planning and policy, and language in education and the workplace. Through research activities and co-curricular visits to sites around the UAE, students will have the opportunity to observe, record, and upload linguistic data to a class database. This data collection will culminate in a series of multimodal research projects on Abu Dhabi's linguistic landscape and soundscape.
Previously taught: January 2023
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Data and Discovery
- Core Curriculum > Experimental Inquiry
- Core Curriculum > Quantitative Reasoning
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies > Arts and Literature
- Minors > Anthropology
-
This course combines theory with intensive listening to examine popular songs in the Arabic-speaking world from the 1950's to the present. Students will develop familiarity with a wide range of Arab singers and their work by way of audiovisual playlists, scholarly and journalistic writing, and social media commentary. The course will introduce basic theoretical issues in popular music studies to provide students with tools for engaging in analysis and writing. We will begin with an exploration of cross-linguistic classification of musical genres and ideologies of the popular and continue to study the ways in which music is linked to political, cultural, religious, and economic forces. The primary forms of assessment are weekly listening quizzes, periodic entries in a shared class blog, and a mid-term and final paper. We will begin with an exploration of cross-linguistic classification of musical genres and ideologies of the popular and continue to study the ways in which music is linked to political, cultural, religious, and economic forces. The primary forms of assessment are weekly listening quizzes, periodic entries in a shared class blog, and a mid-term and final paper.
Previously taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
This course appears in...
- Core Curriculum > Cultural Exploration and Analysis
- Core Curriculum > Islamic Studies
- Majors > Arab Crossroads Studies > Arts and Literature
- Majors > Music
- Majors > Music > Music Studies Track