"Arabicity" In Our Schools By Joseph Klein

The controversial Arabic-oriented public school in Brooklyn, Khalil Gibran International Academy, promotes what it calls a “non-traditional school schedule” that embodies “intensive Arabic language instruction” and lessons in Arab culture and history. Half of its classes are to be taught in Arabic. Its proponents, such as the Network of Arab American Professionals, like to call this approach “Arabicity,” which they have chosen to define as the “expression of one's Arab heritage through individual effort and collective action to further the Arab-American community within the greater American landscape.”

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