It’s the second week of Arabic camp at the Syrian Community Network, an Edgewater nonprofit, and the students’ enthusiasm ricochets off the walls as though they’re singing a Taylor Swift hit, or better yet, one by the Lebanese pop sensation Nancy Ajram, rather than an educational rhyme.
An Arabic-language summer camp connects children of refugees to ‘the memory of the country’
The Edgewater camp grew out of conversations with parents who worried their children could not read or write their home language.
