Lunch with Arabic is an immersive sensory event that aims to prompt the participants’ perceptions of what the Arabic language and culture stand for.
It uses the metaphor of dining and is aimed at Westerners who are non-Arabic speakers.
At its essence, it seeks answers to why Arabic is framed in a certain image in the West and researches the factors and elements involved.
It’s crucial that Westerners gain greater knowledge about Arabic in order to defuse one of the major geopolitical tensions dividing the contemporary world, to counterbalance the fear often generated by Western media coverage of events in the
Arab world and to gain a better insight into what Arabic is.
