Today in Arabic class we learned about interrogative phrases. For yes or no questions there are actually no interoggative words. For those kind of question, only the tonality determines whether or not the person is asking a yes or no questions. We became more familiar with the words that are used for who, what, where etc. An interesting fact about the Egyptian colloquial langauge is that the interogative phrase is placed at the end of the phrase and not at the beginning like in English. This will have to take more getting used to.
For lunch we had our last darasha with Prof. Nevenka Sullivan and had a talk with Prof. Denis Sullivan. With Prof. Nevenka Sullivan, we reviewed and became more familiar with our interrogative phrases.
For the afternoon session, at Leslie's apartment, the lecture topic of Muslim Brotherhood was one that I found particularly interesting because it erased a lot of misconception about the organization itself and the role of Islam in Egyptian society. Dr. Sullivan sheded more light on the political history on Egyptian ruling party and it's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood as well. --Islamism --> the manipulation of Islam for some gain
Dinner: Pizzahut & guy asking us where we are from
* I love eating meat!!
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