My New Years present
In Russian culture, New Years is the most important holiday of the year. Since Qataris don’t celebrate New Years as a holiday, I worked on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The champagne at the hotel was way to expensive, so I didn’t have a requisite glass of bubbly for [...]

A few days before leaving for Doha, Qatar, I asked the US Embassy if I could give a speech or workshop to the Ministry of Education, a university, or association of foreign language teachers about my book, Language is Music, and easy foreign language learning methodology using music. One or two days before leaving, I [...]

(I gave this speech in Doha, Qatar last month at the Doha International Book Fair while on a panel about interactions between US and Arab cultures. The US was the country of honor at the fair.)
Thank you to His Excellency Ahmed AL KUWARI and to the Director of the National Library Mr. Abdullah ANSARI for [...]