He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Center for Arabic early literature and culture of the Abbasid Period but his general interests include classical Arabic literature, biography, literary theory and time travel literature. Arabic literature and translations; some of his publications are Classical Arabic Biography Al-Ma'mun In addition, he has translated Abdelfattah Kilito's group (Radical Reassessment of Arabic Arts, Language, and Literature: an academic alliance dedicated to collaborative research), of in the Arabic literary tradition , sor of Arabic at the Middlebury School of Arabic and was a Visiting Professor Having a profound love for languages, Michael speaks Arabic, Persian, that many of his students and colleagues were under the impression that Michael learned Arabic at childhood.UCLA and had a conversation on issues of language acquisition and language teaching taking his perspective as a language learner as well as a language profes sor, especially as it relates to the Arabic language.Afaf:
NashMichael: began with A, so it was on the top of the list. And I was going to do Chinese and Japanese and Russian, but I never got to those. I just stuck with Arabic.
Afaf:Michael: No. I grew up speaking Greek because my mother's family is basically a heritage speaker of Greek. I heard it all the time from my grandmother and my mother. And I could read and write, but not very well in Greek because I just hadn't really worked on it very much.in Spanish.
Afaf:Michael: took place in my last year of high school because I left my high school early and went to the University of Delaware for my senior year. And they had just started an Arabic program. So when I started taking Arabic, I was about eighteen years old.
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