Saudi Arabia: Arab News sponsors 4 girls for English course

This wouldn’t exactly be newsworthy in most cases but given that it’s taking place in the Hell on Earth known commonly as Saudi Arabia I guess it’s worth mentioning. The Arab News is to sponsor* four of 15 women students taking a Ramadan-long English course organised by the ever lovely British Council in Jeddah. The 15 students were given the opportunity to undertake the language course as a ‘charitable gesture’ by the council at the beginning of Ramadan. The four successful candidates will now be offered the chance to take a month-long continuation course to develop further and reinforce their newly acquired learning.

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* bring back the infinitive to refer to the future, that’s what I say.


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