Daiyan Zakaria

1. Please state your full name, your home university and area of study?
2. Why study Arabic?
3. Why participate in the Flagship program?
4. What are you looking forward to the most during your Capstone year in Meknes?
5. What are your future goals and how does this experience fit in to them?
6. What advice would you give to future Flagship students?
7. Share something fun and interesting about yourself.
Daiyan Zakaria, The University of Texas at Austin, Middle Eastern Studies
To better understand an often neglected culture and region
To complete my Arabic learning journey and acquire superior proficiency in Arabic
Using Arabic in daily and mundane scenarios
I want to work as an Arabic-English translator, so this year gives me the opportunity to refine my
Arabic skills
Consistency is important in everything, especially in learning a language
I am trilingual (English, Arabic, Bengali)