This course is designed to meet the needs of intermediate-level students of Arabic as well as members of the business community who wish to learn Arabic for professional purposes. The topics cover travel, social, and business interactions. The course also introduces and engages with a variety of current, authentic and primary Arabic materials through the language of the newspapers, magazines, Internet news sites, and TV news. Some of the media topics that will be covered are meetings and conferences, elections, and demonstrations and social protest. By the end of this course, the students will be at a mid-intermediate level of proficiency in Arabic.