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'A' Stands For Arabic; Americans have been urged to take up the language. For many, it's a lucrative choice.
Byline: Andrew Romano (With Chrissy Balz)
As a college senior, Dana Stroul had just decided to study Arabic--and Mom was, well, skeptical. "We had some heavy talks," says Stroul. But this was after 9/11, and it wasn't long before the lucrative offers came rolling in: "Once she saw the opportunities, she was relieved." These days Stroul, 25, is earning her stripes as a counterterrorism analyst at DFI Government Services in Washington.
Once upon a time, studying Arabic would have placed a student squarely in the "What are you gonna do with that?" camp. But enrollment in U.S.-college Arabic courses grew 92 percent between 1998 and 2002--and, spurred by 9/11 and the Iraq war, has probably doubled since then, says Gerald Lampe, president of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic. Twenty years ago most students took Arabic to read its literature or to travel, but when asked today, a plurality list "better employment options," according to a new study by researchers at Georgetown and Michigan State.
Many of those jobs, like Stroul's, are inside the Beltway. To fulfill a presidential order for a 50 percent increase in analysts and overseas operatives, a quarter of the CIA's estimated 2,000 annual hires have already studied Arabic or the Mideast. Since 2001 the Justice Department has increased its translation staff by more than ...
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