How does one go from working on Wall Street to writing Arabic for Dummies?
By Brian Eule Amine Bouchentouf ’03 doesn’t remember the exact wording of the ad he posted on Craigslist—the popular Internet bulletin board used to search for jobs, apartments, and items to sell and buy—but it was something like this: Native Arabic Speaker. Middlebury College Graduate. Teaching Experience. Offering Arabic language and Arabic immersion service. He added his phone number and e-mail address. Bouchentouf had taught an Arabic seminar when he was an undergrad, and the Morocco native was contemplating ways he could share his culture with people in the United States and bridge the gap between “two entities that were in a state of complete communication breakdown after 9/11.” Although he hadn’t given much thought about how he would put together a class, Bouchentouf felt that his reliance on discipline and structure would allow him to fit another activity into an already hectic lifestyle. At the time, he was working as an analyst on the trading desk of a Wall Street firm, wakin
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