{"id":4338,"date":"2023-04-11T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T03:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2023-04-19T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:28:37","slug":"asl-initiative-hosts-ramadan-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/asl-initiative-hosts-ramadan-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"ASL Initiative hosts Ramadan workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Emmy Yacoub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Thirteen American University of Sharjah students learned how to sign Ramadan-related phrases and words in American Sign Language during a workshop hosted by the ASL Initiative on April 10 in the Student Center from 5-6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event began with everyone watching a video explaining Ramadan\u2019s purpose and its practices. Students afterward practiced signing words in ASL such as \u201cMuslim,\u201d \u201cAllah,\u201d and \u201cIslam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to ASL Initiative President Lujain Khalil, the goal of the workshop was to show others that sign language is diverse and inclusive of different cultures. She added that the club hoped to interest students in learning it by relating the event to Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmy Yacoub UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Thirteen American University of Sharjah students learned how to sign Ramadan-related phrases and words in American Sign Language during a workshop hosted by the ASL Initiative on April 10 in the Student Center from 5-6 p.m. The event began with everyone watching a video explaining Ramadan\u2019s purpose and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-4338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-clubs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}