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    • 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: 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
        • 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) >
        • 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
    • 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
        • Najwa
        • Kunna ibtada’na
      • Arabic Poems in Lebanese Dialect >
        • Hilwit libnan
    • 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
    • My Translations of Other Poets'/Writers' Works >
      • May Ziyadeh: The Return of the Wave
      • Said Akl: When Lebanon Speaks
      • Ameen Albert Rihani: A Train and No Station
      • 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: 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
    • Lectures
    • Poetry Readings
    • Interviews
    • Conferences
    • Memberships/Committees
    • Management Enrichment
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact Information
 
Lectures:
Presented “Teaching Arabic for Proficiency versus for the DLPT,” DLIFLC, 2012.

Presented “Recall Protocol and Content-Based Instruction,” DLIFLC, 2012.

Presented “How to Select Authentic, Semi-Authentic, and Super-Authentic Material,” DLIFLC, 2011.

Presented “Team Building and Enhanced Team Communication,” DLIFLC, 2010.

Presented “Implementation of the LIFT (Leaders in Front Teaching) Initiative and Elements of Effective Teaching,” DLIFLC, 2009.

 Presented “HEAD TO TOE” (“Highly Enhanced Authentic Discourse Delivered by a Team of Experts”), an innovative approach to team teaching, DLIFLC, 2008.

Presented “The New Arabic Basic Course:  Issues and Solutions,” DLIFLC, 2008.

Presented “Meaningful Homework and the Use of the Target Language and Cultural Information in the Classroom,” DLIFLC, 2008.

Presented an evening of Lebanese zajal poetry at the event “Lebanon:  A Story of Survival.”  Organized by the Cedars Organization of Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2006.

Participated in “Arab Culture Week” of Turath, the Arab Students Organization at Columbia University.  Reading of my poetry in both Fusha and Zajal, Fall 2006.

Presented an evening of zajal poetry at Alwaan for the Arts, New York City, Fall 2006.

“Evening with the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.”  Read excerpts of my translation of his poem, “Antithesis.”  Columbia University, Fall 2006.

 “Variations on Curriculum Design between Academia and the Defense Language Institute.”  Lecture presented at the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, June 2006.

“Gibran Kahlil Gibran and Anglo-American Romanticism” A lecture presented at the Arabic Studies Seminar, Columbia University. October 2005.

“Khalil Hawi and the Role of the Modern Arab Poet.”  Lecture delivered at the Department of Near   Eastern Studies, Princeton University. April 2005.

“Yusuf Abdel Samad and Contemporary Arabic Poetry”  AUB Hall, NYC. April 2005.

Presented an evening of poetry (zajal) with Yusuf Abdel Samad, at “Alwan for the Arts” NYC January 2005.

“Kahlil Gibran and Arabic Literature in the USA” A symposium presented at the Fiske Planitarium Auditorium,   University of Colorado, March 2005.

Presented an evening of Lebanese Zajal poetry during the festival: From Bukhara to Beirut, sung poetry from the Islamic World. Symphony Space, NYC.  April 2005.

Participated on a panel, The Cultural Development of the Arab Mind, sponsored by the Arabic Center for Dialogue and Research and the Arab Club at the United Nations, October 2004.

Presented an evening of poetry (zajal), sponsored by the Alumni Medical Doctors Class of 1974 of the American University of Beirut, October 2004.

"The Life and Works of Ghada Al-Samman with Special Emphasis on her Novel."  A seminar presented at The Lauder Institute, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

"The Middle East and the West : Concepts and Misconceptions in Global Issues both  Ancient and Current." Calvary Episcopal Church, New York City, 2003.

"Poetry Reading", Matinee of Arabic Poetry and Music, sponsored by the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.  Columbia University, 2003.

"Shock Classes in Arabic."  Teaching Fellow Orientation Workshop.Columbia University, 2003. 

"Kahlil Gibran: His Life and Works."  A seminar presented at The Lauder Institute, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

"Reflections on the Life and Poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab." With a reading of his  poem "Unshudat al-Matar" in both Arabic and English, Columbia University 2002. Featured on Columbia's homepage Video Forum. (To view video, click here.)

 “Lunch and Discussion on the Middle East". Columbia University, New York, NY  2001. 

“The Middle East Today:  Fact vs. Fiction”, Scholar’s Day, SUNY College at Cortland, NY 2000. 

“Kahlil Gibran and William Blake:  Poets of Prophetic Vision”, First International Conference on Gibran, University of Maryland, 1999.

“The Middle East on the Eve of the Millennium”, Temple Brith Sholom, Cortland, NY, 1999.

“The Middle East:  An Update”, Rotary Club, Cortland, NY, 1999.

“The History of Islam”, Temple Brith Sholom, Cortland, NY, 1998.

“Islam and the Current Situation in the Middle East”, Rotary Club, Cortland, NY, 1998.

“Foreign Languages and the Future Job Market”, Homer High School, Homer, NY, 1998.

“Contemporary Arabic Poetry”, SUNY Binghamton, 1998.

“Khalil Hawi in Memoriam,” SUNY Binghamton, 1998.

“How to Have an Effective Parent-Teacher Conference”, Cortland-Homer Teacher Center, 1996.

“How to Read and Appreciate Poetry”, Homer Intermediate School, 1996.

“Teaching Arabic in the USA”, DLI, 1994.

“Learning to Read or Reading to Learn:  Effective Techniques on Listening and Reading for Proficiency”, DLI, 1994.

Originator and Moderator of bimonthly literary roundtable of academic discussion, DLI, 1986-1993.

“The Middle East:  Then and Now”, Rotary Club, Monterey, CA 1993.

“Modern Arabic Poetry”, DLI, 1993.

“The Arab Family Abroad”. DLI, 1993.

“The Role of Women in the Arab World”, DLI, 1993.

“Pre-Islamic Arabia”, DLI, 1993.

“The Use, Application and Selection of Authentic Texts”, DLI, 1993.      

“Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language to American Adult Students”, DLI, 1993.

“Islamic History:  Insights and Analysis”, DLI, 1992.

“Arabic Civilization and Thought”, DLI, 1992.

“Medieval Arabic Poetry:  An Overview”, DLI, 1992.

“Cross-Cultural Communication”, DLI, 1992.

“Gibran Kahlil Gibran”, DLI, 1992.

“Introduction to Romanticism”, DLI, 1992.

“Lebanon:  A Nation Under Siege”, Rotary Club, Monterey, CA, 1991.

“Western Influences on Modern Arabic Poetry”, DLI, 1991.

“Diglossia”, DLI, 1989.

“Language:  A Living Being”, DLI, 1986.

 “The Arabic Language:  A Cultural Analysis”, DLI, 1986.

“Culture and Religion in Prewar Lebanon”, DLI, 1984.

Commencement speech at the Christian Teaching Institute, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.

“Gibran Kahlil Gibran wa William Blake:  Sha’ira al-Ru’ya”, Lebanese University, 1982

“The Free-Lebanon Movement”, SUNY Binghamton, 1980.

“al-Shi’r wa al-iltizam”, SUNY Binghamton, 1979.
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