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From http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89466433

Syria Sees Influx of Arabic Language Students
by Peter Kenyon
April 12, 2008

Syria may be a largely closed society, but students from Europe and America are flocking there to study Arabic. They're drawn by the inexpensive tuition and housing rates, as well as the relative purity of the Syrian dialect, which is considered close to classical Arabic.

Read the rest of the article and listen to an accompanying radio report (which aired on NPR on April 12, 2008), at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89466433 .

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