{"id":4755,"date":"2025-04-01T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:16:18","slug":"montclarion-highlights-success-and-impact-of-arabic-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/2025\/04\/01\/montclarion-highlights-success-and-impact-of-arabic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclarion Highlights Success and Impact of Arabic Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themontclarion.org\/feature\/montclair-states-arabic-program-is-allowing-alumni-to-have-a-global-impact\/\"><em>The Montclarion<\/em><\/a> recently spoke with Lois Oppenheim, World Languages and Cultures Department Chair, and Professor Mazooz Sehwail about the success of the Arabic Program at Montclair State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oppenheim, Arabic currently ranks as the third most popular language offering at Montclair State, behind only Italian and French. Sehwail mentioned several factors behind Arabic\u2019s rise,\u00a0 including the Arabic culture\u2019s richness and the large Arab communities in North and Central Jersey. Abundant Arabic-speaking job prospects also boost the appeal of the language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themontclarion.org\/feature\/montclair-states-arabic-program-is-allowing-alumni-to-have-a-global-impact\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montclarion recently spoke with Lois Oppenheim, World Languages and Cultures Department Chair, and Professor Mazooz Sehwail about the success of the Arabic Program at Montclair State. According to Oppenheim, Arabic currently ranks as the third most popular language offering at Montclair State, behind only Italian and French. Sehwail mentioned several factors behind Arabic\u2019s rise,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic","category-world-languages-and-cultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}