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Qatar Scholarship Program
The Qatar Scholarship Program offers dedicated Arabic language students from the United States the opportunity to master their skills in an intensive Arabic language program at Qatar University in Doha for an academic year (September through June).
This program is open to graduate students or those recently obtaining a Bachelors or Masters degree. The scholarship includes round-trip economy air tickets to Doha, Qatar, tuition, university housing, books and a modest monthly stipend of QR 500 (approximately $130 US). Please note, however, that the monthly stipend is modest and students should plan on supplementing this with their own savings). Scholarship students are also required to tutor QU students in English for four hours per week.
The program is designed for those who have already developed their Arabic at the Intermediate and Advanced levels (minimum of 2 years of study is needed to apply). Students passing a proficiency exam at QU also will have the opportunity to audit regular undergraduate courses taught in Arabic in an array of subjects, but the University of Qatar provides no academic credit for this program. The Department of Arabic has a number of specialized instructors who have extensive experience teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. Modern Standard Arabic (fusha) and formal spoken Arabic (lughat al muthaqafeen) are offered, however, at the present, Qatari colloquial Arabic is not offered. The curriculum includes: reading, composition, phonetics, Arabic literature in the modern period, the Qur'an, Hadith, schools of poetry, rhetoric, Arabic grammar, semantics, and methods of teaching Arabic for non-native speakers. For more information about the program at QU, click here.
To watch a short film about the program and life in Doha made by two students who studied at Qatar University during the 2007-2008 academic year, click here.
Contact Us
Qatar Scholarship Program
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University
ICC 241
3700 O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20057-1020
Please direct your questions via email: qatarscholar@georgetown.edu.