Welcome Visitor

The International Education Center at Greenville Technical College, in conjunction with Greenville Forward and Vision 2025, the Greenville Technical Charter High School and the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program, "Direct Access to the Muslim World" would like to welcome Dr. Yamina El Kirat.

A specialist in Arab and Muslim relations from Morocco, Dr. El Karat will be visiting Greenville Technical College for 6 weeks from early February to mid-March 2010. Dr. Kirat has extensive experience in teaching at the university level and has had great involvement in research at the national and international levels, which have endowed her with a rich background about the history, literature and culture of the Muslim and Arab world.

Dr. El Kirat has experience as Chair of the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters, University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat in Morocco. She is also the coordinator of the research group, "Culture, Language, Education, Society and Development," the masters program "Cross-cultural studies" and the doctoral program "Studies in Language, Culture and Society." Dr. Kirat holds both a Ph.D and Masters degree from the University of Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat.

In order to schedule or requests for discussions, please contact John Bennett in the International Education Center at Greenville Technical College. The Office is located on the Barton Campus, International Transfer Building (UT104) room 115. His email address is john.bennett@gvltec.edu. He can also be reached at (864) 250-8304