kuwaiti Customs What's a Diwaniah?

Post your Answers to Your Students' Blogs Fall 2004 Students' Blogs Fall 2003

Activity 1: Go to item # 3 to read Diwaniah, the gathering place * Then answer the following questios: What is a Dewania? How many types of Diwania are available in Kuwait? Go to item # 4 to read When invited to a Dewaniah * List some general rules a guest needs to know when invited to a Diwania? Can women in Kuwait go to a Dewania? Do you agree or disagree with the idea of having Diwanias for women, in Kuwait? Why do agree? Why do you disagree? Do you have similar places to Diwaniahs in your own country? (For International Students) Activity 2: Go to item # 9 to read Men's Clothes. * Write a paragraph to describe Kuwaiti men's traditional clothing, and then post your paragraph to your Blog. * Source: Arabian Business and Cultural Guide, by Mohammed Al-Sabt Note: This was my first Internet lesson, designed and created at a mulitmedia class, by Proffessor Helene Ulitsky, during my MS program at SUNY, Albany, in 1999. Attribute: I am greatly appreciative for my advisor in the Education department at SUNY, Albany, Dr. Carla Messkill, for advising and encouraging me to take the multimedia course. I would also like to express gratitude to Webhead colleagues for the knowledge and experiences I learned from them and with them, which helped me improve and develop this and other CALL lessons, created earlier during the mutlimedia course.

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