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Our emerging Arabic program helps Arabic learners at Loyola find connections between classroom learning experience and multiple investments of Arabic as applied to their own worlds. Students celebrate their ability to own their Arabic learning as it fits their needs and enjoy discovering opportunities in which Arabic helps them in diverse personal contexts.

A Personal “Totem” in Arabic

Posted on: May 9th, 2017 by sabbadi

My name is Ulfath Jameel and I’ have just finished my junior year at Loyola majoring in Psychology. The images in this blog represent one of the projects I have worked on in my Ceramics class, specifically a Hand building Class. This project was called the “Totem” because we had to create our own personal piece that had different levels.

As you can see, I have 4 levels in my structure. This piece is very important to me because I feel that it reflects myself more than I had imagined. The purpose of this project is that the audience may see something as a literal piece; however it has more meaning to the person who created it. As for myself, I have always loved dolphins ever since I was a little girl. Basketball, which is the 4th level, has also been a part of my life for a long time. It was my favorite hobby by far. The symbols around the cube on the 2nd level represent the countries I have been to within 4 years and have a deeper meaning to me.

Finally, all over the structure I have written Arabic words and names that have some significance to me. I was very inspired by my Arabic class taken with Ustaadha (professor) Sawsan and how beautiful Arabic writing was. I used slip trailing to write all of those words, which was honestly a difficult task. I can say however, it was worth my time. I believe it turned out better than I had expected.