Sanaʽa Institute for the Arabic Language (SIAL) is located in the Old City of Sanaa, Yemen, on Sa’ilah Street.
The school specialises in teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
[1] SIAL also teaches courses in Arabic calligraphy, Islamic studies and Yemeni culture.
[2] The school, located in a house in the Tabariya neighbourhood, attracted many students from the United Kingdom and the United States before the September 11 attacks in 2001, but today[when?]
He attended Reading University in the 1980s[4] and was Arabic language program coordinator for the Peace Corps in Yemen.