Reflections of Arab American Literature

        The reason why I chose to make Kibbeh as my dish of choice was because it looked very similar to a baked dish that my mother made from Haiti. From what I researched there are many different variations in the Arab world to make Kibbeh but it's origins are mostly from Lebanon and Syria. The dish hails all the way from nomadic traditions in ancient Middle East, based on what I recently discovered is that the word, "Kibbeh" comes from Kubbah meaning ball, which represents the shape of the dish. It is also said that the dish was formulated using the necessary ingredients that the nomads had at the time. Over the course of history other regions started incorporating their own style of Kibbeh as well as the many different ways to make it, such as Kibbeh Nayyeh = Raw Kibbeh, fried or baked. The dish was served to guests through hospitality or in celebrations and edible creation was suitably easy for the nomadic life.           ...

  R esearch in Education Margins (Above):      Perceptions of ASL Interpretation Service Offerings at a Secondary Institution , which was presented by Marley (B.A in ASL '25) and Professor Champoux-Crowley (English Department). The research over all was based on the level of learning in D/deaf students and their engagement with interpreters and the factors that lead interpretation services to not producing proper understanding of sign language. I learned about interpreters who are forced to more than their job description how it affects their ability to do their job because they are overloaded with extra menial tasks. The study provides evidence that interpreters who don't have the proper license and certifications can affect learning in deaf children, an example would be obtaining ITP (Interpreter Training Program) certification even though their EIPA (Education Interpreter Performance Assessment) score was low in terms of passing the assessment. A pilot study was ...