SOHARA offers several opportunities for students to absorb Arab culture within a variety of native settings. Beyond the classrooms SOHARA creates intimate immersion through events where they will connect with local Bedouin families’ daily lives, learn how to cook local cuisine, assist in farm cultivation, and learn regional customs and traditions such as handicrafts and olive harvesting. We also help expand students’ Arabic language proficiency through better understanding present-day Morocco through interactive workshops, Arab cultural events, and discussions on Morocco politics, Islam, democracy, media, arts, human rights, the role of refugees, and multiculturalism. We provide each student a rich, visually compelling series of details through Morocco’s historical sites. including Tracing Islam in Morocco. burial sites of religious figures dear to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
February 27, 2024
