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About Kalamna

Established in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom, Kalamna is an award-winning social enterprise focused on empowering families to connect with and celebrate their culture and heritage through the Arabic language. Its key activities include developing learning resources rooted in academic research and pedagogy; delivering Arabic language community classes for children across Europe and North America as well as masterclasses for teachers and parents wishing to support young learners’ Arabic language journey.

  • Spoken Arabic

    Our emphasis on spoken Arabic both celebrates the diglossic nature of Arabic and ensures a seamless language learning journey to fusHa - regardless of the dialect spoken at home.

  • Arabic Teacher Development

    We believe in empowering others with the knowledge and tools they need to run successful classes for their communities or teach their children at home.

  • Research-Led Resources

    When developing our resources, we take an evidence-based approach to make sure they are both engaging and effective.

Our Experts

Founder, Director & Teacher Saussan Khalil

Saussan is an experienced Arabic as a Foreign Language teacher, with a PhD in Arabic Studies and MA by Research in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) from the University of Leeds, and a Certificate of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CTAFL) from SOAS, London.

Saussan teaches at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and is a Cambridge Research in Community Language Education Network (CRiCLE) School Research Advisory Board member.

She is the author of Arabic Writing in the Digital Age: Towards a Theoretical Framework, and the creator of the Kalamna Phonics Toolkit.

Towards a Theoretical Framework

Kalamna Phonics Toolkit.

Kalamna Phonics™
E-toolkit

Get our fantastic new Kalamna Phonics™️
e-toolkit – the fastest, easiest, most engaging way to teach children to read in Arabic!

In collaboration with prominent children’s authors and illustrators, we bring you a fun, engaging, and modern way
to introduce reading and writing in Arabic!

Over 400 electronic flashcards and 10 graded
e-books across 5 levels.

Fully compatible with both Modern Standard and Spoken Arabic!

See Phonics Toolkit
Kalamna Phonics

Arabic Writing in the Digital Age
Towards a Theoretical Framework

By Saussan Khalil 2022

The written and spoken forms of Arabic have been traditionally viewed as separate forms of the language that rarely overlap in writing, but this book will examine the recently emerged concept of ‘mixed’ writing that combines both written and spoken forms.

Primarily aimed at Arabic researchers and teachers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, identity studies, politics, and Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, this book would also be informative for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Arabic as a foreign language, Arabic linguistics, and dialectology.

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Awards and Recognition

Social Entrepreneur
Cambridge Prestige Awards
Istudy Guide

Affiliations

Social Enterprise UK
Cambridge Social Ventures