Learning the lingo in the land of Bin Laden
American students flock to Yemen to learn Arabic, undeterred by the country's reputation as an Al Qaeda stronghold.
SANA'A, Yemen — Nathan Karp takes a table inside the campus of the Yemeni College of Middle Eastern Studies, cracks open his dog-eared Arabic dictionary, sips the first of many cups of potent tea and begins going over his verb conjugations.
Though no stranger to college campuses — having grown up in Berkeley, Calif., and studied at Brown University as an undergraduate...
