Colin Mallard, Author at The Almond Tree

“ALL HANDS ON DECK!” Does It Matter What The Help Looks Like?

March 26, 2014 By Colin Mallard 1 Comment

There are those who’ve argued that only Palestinian people can tell the story of the Palestinian experience, only Black people, the Black experience and so on. For members of one group to describe what they’ve observed of another is thought to be presumptuous, even racist, a theft of one group’s narrative by members of another—a […]

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Professor Samir Abu-AbsiProfessor Emeritus of English at the University of Toledo. Writer and editor, American Arabs in Toledo Samir Abu-Absi (B.A. in English from The American University of Beirut, M.A. & Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University) is Professor Emeritus of English. He has taught language and linguistics courses that include Linguistic Principles, History of the English Language, Phonology, Applied Linguistics, and Arabic. His research interests include ESL, Language Policy and Planning, Arabic Structure, and the relationship between Language and Culture.

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