MRC Ruqayyah in collaboration with Secretariat of Arabic Language and Literature (ALA) is organizing a program of “Arabic Novel Reading Course”, (ANReC first series) with Dr. Nursafira Binti Ahmad Safian. She is also one of project leaders for flagship project under KIRKHS. This course serves as a platform for all students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) especially residents of Mahallah Ruqayyah.
By attending this course, the students will be reading the selected Arabic novel practically while learning morphological and Arabic grammatical structure as well. Furthermore, the students could enhance their Arabic knowledge and understanding, as well as improve their language proficiency skill. This course will be conducted on every Friday from 11a.m. until 12.30p.m. for six sessions via google meet. However, this course only limited to 25 participants only in order to have the best quality outcome.
Book Summary
The Bamboo Stalk
Kuwait’s Saud Alsanousi was awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel Saq Al-Bamboo (The Bamboo Stalk) at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in 2013.
Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, a spoiled only son. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her back home with her baby son, Jose.
Brought up struggling with his dual identity, Jose clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he is 18. But will Kuwait be any more welcoming to him? Daring and bold, ‘The Bamboo Stalk’ takes an unflinching look at the phenomenon of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion
