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  • Professional Profile
    • Who is George Nicolas El-Hage
  • Publications
    • "Aqlam Muhajirah" The voice of the New Pen League (NPL)
    • Literary Criticism >
      • Books (English) >
        • A Labor of Love: Our Lebanon Family Home Renovation Project
        • Gibran Kahlil Gibran: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
        • Eliya Abu Madi: The Distinguished Poet of al-Rabita al-Qalamiya
        • A Brief History of Arabic Literature: Volume One: Pre-Islamic to the Abbaasid Age
        • A Brief History of Arabic Literature: Volume Two: Andalusia to the Modern Age
        • William Blake and Kahlil Gibran: Poets of Prophetic Vision
        • Gibran Kahlil Gibran: The Man Versus the Legend
        • Essays on Literature and Language
        • Ibn al-Farid's "Khamriyya" ("Ode on Wine")
        • Nizar Qabbani: Journal of a City Named Beirut
        • Nizar Qabbani: Women in My Poetry and in My Life
        • Nizar Qabbani: My Story with Poetry - "An Autobiography"
        • Nizar Qabbani: Journal of An Indifferent Woman
        • Ghada al-Samman's Beirut '75: An Autobiographical Interpretation
        • English Translation of Selected Letters of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
        • Khalil Hawi: Letters of Love and Life
        • The Philosoper of Freike, Author of the Greater City
        • Immortal Quotes from Ameen al-Rihani’s Masterpiece The Book of Khalid
        • Ameen al-Rihani: Eastern and Western Figures
        • Ameen al-Rihani’s The Register of Repentance: Four Short Stories and a Play
        • Selected Letters of Ameen al-Rihani: Translated with an Introduction and Notes
        • Ameen al-Rihani: You...The Poets
        • Ameen al-Rihani: My Story with May
        • Ameen al-Rihani: The Muleteer and the Priest
      • Books (Arabic) >
        • al-Zajal al-Lubnani wa Zaghloul al-Damour fi Beit Meri: (Lebanese Zajal and Zaghloul al-Damour in Beit Meri)
        • Madkhal ila-l-'alam al-shi 'ri 'inda Khalil Hawi usluban wa madmunan: (An Introduction to the Poetic Universe of Khalil Hawi)
        • al-Nabi bayna 'adu al-Masih wa al-Insan al-Ilah
        • Sahifat "al-Risala" al-Lubnaniya al-Mahjariya: (The "al-Risala" Newspaper and the Lebanese Press in Diaspora)
        • Gibran Kahlil Gibran wa William Blake: Sha'ira al-Ru'ya: (Gibran Kahlil Gibran and William Blake: Poets of Prophetic Vision)
        • The Trilogy of Heroism, Redemption, and Triumph: The Press in Diaspora, Khalil Hawi, Zaghloul al-Damour
    • Textbooks & Articles on Teaching & Learning Arabic >
      • marHaba III: A Course in Levantine & Modern Standard Arabic (LMSA) >
        • Qasidat Najwa
        • marHaba III: PART ONE Audio Files
        • marHaba III: PART TWO Audio Files
        • marHaba III: PART FOUR Audio Files
      • marHaba II: A Course in Levantine Arabic - Lebanese Dialect - Intermediate Level >
        • A Companion Book to marHaba II: English Translation & Transliteration of All Lessons in marHaba II
      • marHaba: A Course in Levantine Arabic - Lebanese Dialect >
        • marHaba: Practice Workbooks
      • MABROUK: A Course in Modern Standard Arabic (Elementary & Intermediate Levels) >
        • Study Guide: MABROUK
      • The Story of Sami and Warda
      • Reviews on Qasidat Khataya
    • Lebanese Nursery Rhymes
    • Books (Poetry in English/Arabic) >
      • Love Surpassed: A Book of Poetry
      • Letters to My Son: An Immigrant's Saga
      • Lebanese Hymns of Love and War
    • Books (Poetry in Arabic) >
      • Love Poems from Beirut
      • Awdat al-Faris wa Qiyamat al-Madina
      • al-Ghurba wa Mawasim al-Dhalam
      • Law Kunti Li
      • Qasa’id Bila Tarikh (Undated Poems) >
        • Mikhail Naimy: Fathers and Sons - A Play in Four Acts
      • Maw’id wa-liqa’
      • anti wal atfaalu fi Beirut: You and the Children in Beirut
      • You and the Children in Beirut
    • Poems (English) >
      • To Mary Ann with Love: A Book of Poetry
      • Birth of a Princess
      • Forty Years of Bliss
      • Thinking of You
      • You are My Christmas
      • A Poem for Mother's Day
      • To Mary Ann on Her Birthday
    • Poems (Arabic) >
      • Arabic Poems in MSA >
        • Beirut Speaks - song
        • A Tribute to Beirut
        • Lubnaniyat
        • The Garden of Visions
        • Qasidat Najwa >
          • Reviews on Qasidat Najwa
        • Kunna ibtada’na
      • Arabic Poems in Lebanese Dialect >
        • Qasidat Khataya >
          • Reviews on Qasidat Khataya
        • Qasidat Damaar >
          • Reviews on Qasidat Damaar
        • Hilwit libnan
        • Qasidat Ya Bayi' al-ward >
          • Reviews on Qasidat Ya Bayi' al-ward
        • Qasidat Ayloul >
          • Reviews on Qasidat Ayloul
    • My Translations of Other Poets'/Writers' Works >
      • My Poetry (Translated from Arabic to English) >
        • Beirut Speaks
        • The Book of Death, #28
        • Journey of Illusion
        • Letter to a Country With No Frontier
        • A Letter to the Children of Qana
        • My People
        • You, Beirut and the Children
        • Introduction to If You Were Mine
        • Sufiya: A Mystical Poem
        • Surprise Attack
        • Exile
        • Chariot of Light
      • Karam al-Bustani: Eastern Myths
      • May Ziyadeh: The Return of the Wave
      • Said Akl: When Lebanon Speaks
      • Ameen Albert Rihani: A Train and No Station
      • Mikhail Naimy: Job: A Play in Four Acts
      • Mikhail Naimy: Once Upon A Time
      • Mikhail Naimy: Abu Batta and Other Stories
      • Mikhail Naimy: Fathers and Sons - A Play in Four Acts
      • Mikhail Naimy: Inspired by Christ
      • Mikhail Naimy: Sab‘un (Seventy) An Autobiography
      • Mikhail Naimy: al-Ghirbal (The Sieve): Selections Translated into English with an Introduction
      • Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: “The Qareen” and Other Stories
      • Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: The Wool Shirt and Other Stories
      • Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: A Loaf of Bread (al-Raghif)
      • Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: The Lame Boy and Other Stories
      • Maroun Abboud: Faces and Stories
      • Maroun Abboud: The Red Prince - A Lebanese Tale
      • Maroun Abboud: Tales from the Village
      • al-Rihaniyyat
      • Munajayat Al-Sab‘in
      • Mahmud Darwish’s poem, “Antithesis”
      • ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati’s: The Byzantine Poems of Abu Firas
      • Gibran’s Unpublished Letters to Archbishop Antonious Bashir
    • Personal Reflections >
      • First Impressions of Lebanon in June 2013
      • The Collapse of a Tradition
  • Professional Activities
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    • Poetry Readings
    • Interviews
    • Conferences
    • Memberships/Committees
    • Management Enrichment
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact Information
Conferences
Participated in the DLIFLC Commandant’s annual off site meetings and provided valuable input, Presidio of Monterey, CA, 2008 – 2012

Organized annual school-wide conferences on Meaningful Homework and Grammar Clinics; increased student and team motivation and moral improvement, proper student counseling and reducing student attrition.  Hosted Open House on LIFT (Leaders In Front Teaching) Initiative and Students’ Talent Show, DLIFLC, Presidio of Monterey, CA, 2008 – 2012.

Attended and presented on the Arabic Dialect Program at DLIFLC at the Language Flagship Annual Meeting, University of Portland, Oregon, May 2012.

Participated in a job fair to interview, evaluate and recruit Levantine and Iraqi Arabic teachers, Dearborn, Michigan, October 2011.

Presented on the success of the Dialect Experiment at DLI to the Board of Visitors and also during the FAO (Foreign Area Officers) Summit , DLIFLC, Presidio of Monterey, 2011.

Attended MESA Conference and participated in a roundtable discussion on teaching MSA versus dialect and how best to develop a curriculum,  San Diego, CA, 2010.

Invited to serve on the Boron Fellowship Review Panel in Washington, DC, 2010.

Attended and presented at the DELTAB (The Defense Language Testing Advisory Board) meeting in Washington, DC on the development, progress and success of the Iraqi Dialect Course, 2010.

Presented on the Arabic Curriculum at the FAO Summit, DLIFLC, 2010.

Presented to the BOV for accreditation on the Iraqi and Levantine Dialects, DLIFLC, 2010.

Attended and participated at the NSEP session at the Flagship Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA 2010.

Presented “In House Training at DLI” at the conference on foreign languages, the University of Texas, Austin, January 2010.

Presented “The Iraqi and Levantine Dialect Course:  A Dean’s Perspective” at the Arabic LEARN conference in West Point, NY, 2010.

Attended ACTFL and led an impromptu session on teaching MSA versus dialect, San Diego, November 2009.

Represented DLIFLC in information exchange and lessons learned in the teaching of Arabic with DLI Washington and the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC, August 2009.

Served as Chairperson on DLI’s sponsored events: “Windows to the World Symposium” 2009 and “Merit Pay Panels” 2008 – 2011, DLIFLC.

Selected to represent DLIFLC at the Danish Defense Institute to initiate discussion on the teaching of MSA and Dialect for a pilot Iraqi dialect class, Denmark, December 2008.

Represented DLIFLC and met with the leadership team to assess the current curriculum and students’ proficiency in Arabic at Fort Gordon, September 2008.

Paper entitled  “4+2: Reaching Higher Proficiency Levels through a Better Curriculum” accepted at the NCOLCTL Conference, NYC, Nov. 2008.

Paper entitled “Assessing Higher Performance Standards” presented at DLI Conference, Presidio of Monterey, March 2008

Paper entitled “Arabic Dialect First” presented at the  Summit to Assess Dialect Proficiency, DLIFLC, Presidio of Monterey,  February 2008.

Attended 2006 MESA Conference, Boston, MA, and conducted interviews for candidates applying to Columbia University’s Arabic position, November 2006.

Attended and participated in the 2005 MESA Conference, Washington D.C. November 2005. Presented a paper entitled: “Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the Role of the Modern Arab Poet.”

“Total Immersion Curriculum for the Advanced Levels in Arabic” with Foazi El-Barouki, DLI. A workshop presented at the North East Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. NYC, April 2005.

Invited to present a paper and participate in the “Oxford Round Table” discussion of a special session entitled “Global Security in the 21st Century” at Lincoln College, in the University of Oxford, England, 2006. 

Invited to give a presentation and participate in the Second International Conference on Kahlil Gibran.  April 2006. University of Maryland, College Park.

Attended and participated in the 2004 MESA conference, San Francisco, November 2004.  Presented a paper entitled, “Beirut ’75 by Ghada al-Samman: An Autobiographical

 Interpretation.” Also chaired a panel, “Dynamics of Culture in the Gulf Arab States: Part II.”  And represented MEALAC at the meeting of the Center for Arab Study Abroad (CASA).

Attended the “Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,” sponsored by the

Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS), the University of Oklahoma, March 2004

Attended ACTFL, Pennsylvania, 2003.

Attended AATA, Pennsylvania, 2003. 

Attended "Foreign Languages Collaborations and the Web."  Conference of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. The University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Invited to present a paper on the contemporary Lebanese/Arab poet, Khalil Hawi, at the Arabic Literature Seminar held in conjunction with the ACLA annual convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.

Invited to present a paper and participate in the open discussion at the Conference of L' Academie Culturelle Arabe in Amman, Jordan, December 2002.

Attended and read a paper at the First International Conference on Kahlil Gibran at the University of Maryland, 1999.

Attended ACTFL, Monterey, CA  1989.

Attended ACLA, New York University, NY, 1982.

Attended MESA, Washington, DC, 1980.

Attended Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL, 1978.

Attended ACLA, Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, New Haven,  CT, 1978.


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