For immediate release October 23, 2009

Media contact: Jacquie Lucy 443-840-4668

Fulbright Fellow comes to CCBC

Baltimore County, Md. – The Foreign Language program at the Community College of Baltimore County got an added boost this academic year with the addition of Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Fellow, Mohamed I. Amira, to the faculty. He comes to the USA from Egypt, where he taught English to Arabic-speaking students. At CCBC, Amira is teaching Arabic to English-speaking students while serving as a cultural ambassador.

Mohamed Amira

Under his Fulbright FLTA Fellowship, Amira must also enroll in courses related to the culture and language of his host county. This session, he is taking American Government and grammar.

For Amira, who arrived in Chicago in mid-August, this is his first trip to the states. His immersion into the American culture has included social gatherings with colleagues, sight-seeing trips to Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. and an Orioles game.

Although he is headquartered at CCBC Catonsville, Amira is teaching on both the Catonsville and Essex campuses under the tutelage of Assistant Professor Soumaya Long, who pioneered the teaching of Arabic at CCBC almost four years ago. Today, the popular credit program offers basic and intermediate courses in standard Arabic.

CCBC’s Foreign Language department in the School of Liberal Arts offers credit courses in Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian and Latin. Continuing Education at CCBC offers non-credit courses in these and other languages. call 443-840-4700 for more information on these programs.

For additional information or to register for a language course, visit the CCBC Web site at www.ccbcmd.edu/liberal_arts/fl_degree.html .

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