Middle East Experience
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Riding camels. Shopping in the souq. Swimming in mountain pools and sleeping under a desert sky. Those are just some of the after-class activities for students enrolled in Northwestern College’s Oman Semester. Oman is known as one of the Middle East’s most hospitable nations. Students live at the Reformed Church in America’s Al Amana Centre in Muscat. They learn Arabic, study Oman’s culture, and engage in respectful inter-religious discussions with their new Omani friends.
After only three years, 95 teachers have already graduated from Northwestern’s online Master of Education program and are using what they learned to better serve students.
Frank and Drew Vogel, who both served as president of Diamond Vogel Paint, are honored by the Iowa Business Hall of Fame.
Students in Northwestern’s Oman Semester study the country’s culture, learn Arabic and engage in respectful inter-religious discussions with their new Omani friends.
When B. Elwood Fahl applied for a teaching job at Northwestern in 1929, he offered to do “anything in the line of extra work you would desire.” President Heemstra took him up on the offer.
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