Spanish Arabic Faculty Exchange

Professors Abdelaal and García-Olano taught a second semester Spanish course in the Spring of 2021 that provided students with a critical and complex understanding of some of the current and most relevant social, economic, and political issues affecting Latin American countries (i.e. immigration, war on drugs, governmental corruption, pollution and deforestation, attacks on the press, ideological, racial and class divide, historical revisionism, exploitation, segregation and marginalization of indigenous peoples, human trafficking, sexual trafficking and sexual violence, etc.) and of the different ways in which they are reflected in films and literary works of the 21st century.