AREAS MARYAM SHARRON STUDIED: Languages

In the photo above, she can be seen in Egypt with companion Howard University Arabic language Fellows.

As a proud recipient of a prestigious Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Arabic Language Summer Grant to Egypt, Maryam Sharron would regularly power through late night study sessions of Arabic grammar in her Cairo apartment. She was awarded the Bunche Fellowship while a Master’s student at Howard University where she enthusiastically joined a group of other language Fellows in 2007.

She studied French starting in elementary school and continued those studies through high school and undergrad. Maryam Sharron received her undergraduate degree in English (B.A.) from the University of Toledo in 1994. There, she studied English and writing in depth and focused her language studies on topics of African and African American perspectives, America as New Nation, The Old South, Gypsy Ethnicity within America, the Ethiopian Book of Kings (Kebra Negast) and Beat Writers as welll as continuing her studies of French. She also had research interests in Medieval English.

From 2002 - 2003, Maryam Sharron volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps in Uzbekistan where she taught local students English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and history and also learned to speak and read Uzbek.