My Arabic

My name is Lilly Pireva and I am currently a freshman majoring in Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience and minoring in Spanish and Arabic. I am lucky to have grown up bilingual, speaking Bulgarian with my family at home and English at school, so I learned to love foreign languages from a young age. I started […]

Marhabaan! My name is Andrew Milewski. I am a first-year master’s student in the social philosophy program as well as a Jesuit scholastic studying for future ordination. I am very happy to be associated with the Arabic language and culture program here at Loyola University Chicago. I grew up in a traditionally Arabic speaking Catholic […]

My name is Maria and I’m a senior graduating Loyola in few days! I specialize in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience with a minor in Arabic Language and Culture. The Arabic language has always intrigued me since I was a kid. The sound of each letter and the way it is spoken has always sounded like […]

People are shocked when I tell them my dad will happily drive 5 hours just to have a good meal. Even my mom and I can’t believe it’s something he’s so willing to do in this age of Uber Eats and instant gratification. But he won’t do this for just any cuisine. On random Saturdays […]

marhaba! My name is Heden Abdulah, and I am a sophomore studying Global Studies and Environmental Policy with a minor in Arabic Language and Culture. It would be remiss of me to say that studying Arabic is easy. On many frustrating nights, I found myself staying up late, doing my Arabic homework, and trying to […]

marHaba yaa Tulaab! My name is Natalie Burdsall and I am a recent graduate of Loyola’s Arabic program, and former Arabic tutor and American sign Language coach. I graduated summa cum laude in May 2022 with BAs in Global Studies and Communication Studies, and minors in Arabic Language and Culture and Islamic World Studies. Shortly […]

Hi, My name is Giulianna Larson! I am a sophomore majoring in Journalism with minors in Spanish, Arabic, and political science. For the past year, I have been working with an organization called Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America (FORA). Serving refugee families from countries such as Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Eritrea, FORA […]

With deepest gratitude to Modern Languages and Literatures and CAS at large, this blog concludes my orientation and exploratory visit to a few long-standing academic centers in Rabat, Morocco with which Loyola had years of partnership and collaboration for students’ experiential learning and growth. The focus this time is on the SIT study abroad program […]

Hello, my name is Lilly Pireva and I’m currently a sophomore at Loyola. I’m majoring in molecular neuroscience and minoring in Arabic. In the fall 2021 semester, I took an honors English class which focused on the problems in educational systems and the lives of those who were the unknowing victims to it. Our final […]

My name is Denise Du Vernay, and I have been a staff member at Loyola since fall of 2018, but back in the fall of 2012, I had a very different life: I was starting my 18th year of teaching English after earning a master’s degree in literature at Florida State back in 2002. It […]