Islam
The city to which Muhammad traveled in 622
What is Medina (or Yathrib)?
The most populous city in the Middle East
What is Cairo, Egypt?
The country with the most Arabic speakers
What is Egypt?
The location of most Arabic classes
What is Lown Center for Judaica Studies?
The year of Muhammad's birth
What is 570 CE (Or, the Year of the Elephant)?
The smallest Middle Eastern country in miles?
What is Bahrain? (268 sq miles)
The Arabic dialect that is most commonly found in the media
What is Egyptian Arabic?
The number of electives required for IMES majors?
What is 3?
The number of Muslims in the world
What is approximately 1.6 billion?
The number of countries bordering Iraq
What is 6? (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Kuwait)
The direction in which numbers are written in Arabic
What is left-to-right?
The professor who runs the Brandeis Arabic Department's Instagram page
Who is Hanan Khashaba?
The number of Muslims who visit Mecca each year
What is 2.5 million?
The number of languages spoken in the Middle East
What is more than 60?
The English word for a fruity dessert, which comes from the Arabic word for "to drink"
The number of IMES classes offered this semester
What is 21?
The number of Ayat (verses) in the Qur'an
What is 6,236? (Or, 6,666)
The country from which Saudi Arabia imports both camels and sand
What is Australia?
Name at least three other Semitic languages (other than Arabic)
What are Amharic, Tigrinya, Hebrew, Tigre, Aramaic, and Maltese?
The Public Figure coming to campus on October 23 who served as a senior director on the NSC and worked in the Clinton and Obama Administrations in matters of counterterrorism and security policy
Who is Steven Simon?