Grad students should apply to PIIRS for summer-language funding, also via SAFE (see http://www.princeton.edu/piirs/funding/graduate/); the deadline for PIIRS graduate-funding applications is generally in early to mid-February.

Funding and General Information

For those of you interested in study abroad, you will first want to consult the website of Princeton’s Office of International Programs (www.princeton.edu/oip), and its Study Abroad Program page at www.princeton.edu/oip/sap. You will find important information there about both funding opportunities and University credit.  Please note, if you want to earn Princeton credit for courses taken in any summer program, you must consult the Office of International Programs well before you head off to study at these programs.

Students seeking funding from the Department or Program in Near Eastern Studies should consult the following: Graduate students can obtain an application from the Department website at www.princeton.edu/nep. Undergraduates should apply directly via the SAFE portal at http://www.princeton.edu/studentfunding/.

Another source of funding is the federal Critical Language Study fellowship, administered by the American Councils for International Education.  Information on this fellowship can be found at www.clscholarship.org.  (Note: The application deadline for summer 2018 CLS scholarships is November 15, 2017.)  Greg Bell was the academic director for the CLS program in Oman in 2010 and 2011; he can speak to you about the CLS experience, as can Princeton students who have been awarded CLS grants in the past (see Princeton Resource People, below).

Finally, be sure to look into any scholarships or funding offered by language programs themselves.  Many programs have money to help those who wish to attend them, with awards based on need and/or qualifications. This is particularly true of U.S.-based programs which tend to be costly, but which often have funding available.

Travel Warnings and Advisories: If you are planning to study abroad, you should the U.S. Government's international travel site https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html where you will find country-specific information, travel warnings and alerts, and lots of other information (including a section on “International Travel Safety Information for Students”).  The State Department’s travel warnings are of particular importance as the University will not fund or endorse programs in countries on the travel warning list (see http://www.princeton.edu/travel/policies/warningslist, where there is information about this policy and possible exemptions).  As of  6 December 2017, Arab countries on the warning list include Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Republic of South Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.  You will need to consult the Office of International Programs about your destination and keep abreast of developments in the region. Programs in the list below taking place in countries with travel warnings have been noted.

General Guides to Summer Arabic Programs (Back to top)

For Arabic summer programs, both in the U.S. and abroad, two highly recommended links are:

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) provides information about summer Arabic programs at http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/publications/newsletter/summer-programs.html.

The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) also provides a wealth of information about Arabic programs at http://www.aataweb.org/summer_programs.

Also useful may be The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) database of less commonly taught language programs at http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db.

Programs and Princeton Resource People (Back to top)

Following is a list of programs for which Princeton students or instructors have volunteered to serve as information resources.  The people listed here will welcome inquiries from students about the programs they have attended.

Other Summer Arabic Programs (Back to top)

There are many summer Arabic programs for which we do not have resource people.  The following lists a number of programs which our students may have attended, or programs which they have asked about, or programs which have contacted us.  Please note that this list is not exhaustive and does not imply any sort of endorsement.  Consult the MESA and AATA websites cited above for a full and current list of summer Arabic programs.

AALIM, Morocco  www.aalimorocco.com

AAIN Arabic Institute, Meknes, Morocco http://www.aain.ma/

Michigan State University, at Jordan Language Academy, Amman, Jordan https://osa.isp.msu.edu/Programs/program/index/107603 (See Travel Warning above)

Palestine Summer Encounter, Bethlehem & The Holy Land Trust www.palestinesummer.org
http://www.holylandtrust.org (See Travel Warning above)

PEASS, The Arabic Program for Social Sciences of EGE Rabat (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique), Rabat, Morocco http://www.egerabat.com/peass/

The Rihla Program, Ibri, Oman and Meknes, Morocco, a joint program of the Noor Majan Training Institute (see above) and AALIM (see above) with four weeks of study in each country. http://www.rihla-program.com

Selat Language Center, Amman, Jordan http://selatinstitute.com/ (See Travel Warning above)

Saifi Institute for Arabic Language, Beirut http://saifiarabic.com/ (See Travel Warning above)

Sibawayh Center, Cairo www.sibawayhcenter.com/sibawayh (See Travel Warning above)

Sidi Bou Said Center for Languages, Tunis www.sidibousaidlanguages.com/en; also see The Arabic House operated by the Center Sidi Bou Said, located in North Potomac, MD http://sidibousaidlanguages.com/thearabichouse/ (See Travel Warning above)

Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture, Amman, Jordan http://sijal.org/ (See Travel Warning above)

SINARC, Lebanese American University, Lebanon  www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/sinarc (See Travel Warning above)

Summer Arabic in Tunis, (See The ACT Center, Tunis below)

Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW 2017), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://silmw.linguistics.illinois.edu/

Summer Translation Institute, Western Michigan University  www.wmich.edu/languages/summertranslation

Sultan Qaboos College Arabic Program, Manah, Oman http://www.sqca.edu.om/

Summer Language Program in the Kingdom of Morocco, National Council on US-Arab Relations, AALIM Institute, Meknes, Morocco https://ncusar.org/study-abroad/aalim

Tunisian ACT Center, Summer Arabic in Tunis, Tunis http://http://www.thebeirutexchange.com/ (See Travel Warning above)