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Language department cuts fracture the Arabic program and Middle Eastern studies major

Language department cuts fracture the Arabic program and Middle Eastern studies major

“If I [had known] they weren’t going to keep Arabic, I honestly wouldn’t have come,” prospective Arabic minor Sofia Nojaim ’25 said.

Nojaim is one of 13 students currently enrolled in the second semester of first year Arabic.

According to Safiyah Bey ’23, an international relations major, on Feb. 16, the members of the first year Arabic class were informed that intermediate Arabic classes would no longer be taught on the Mount Holyoke College campus.

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Italian professor’s departure would mean end of Italian major and minor programs

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When the Mount Holyoke College Italian department learned that Martino Lovato, visiting lecturer in Italian and classics, would not have his contract renewed for the upcoming academic year, his fellow faculty members were distraught.

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