“Marḥaba ya shabāb!”

Heba teaches Arabic and Dutch at Taalhuis Amsterdam, working with both adults and children. She coordinates the Arabic department and is a frequent host of intercambio’s and workshops.

She moved from Ḥalab (Aleppo), Syria to the Netherlands in 2015, and she has since fallen in love with this “small, beautiful country.”

Besides teaching, Heba is passionate about reading, especially Arabic literature. Language teaching and learning are truly her passions, she always looks forward to exploring new languages and discovering the cultures and people behind them. In addition to Arabic, English, and Dutch, she also studied Hebrew at university.

Heba has many favorite Arabic expressions that often sneak into her English and Dutch, such as inshallah, yalla, tamām, and ṭayyib. “So yalla, come to Taalhuis and enjoy learning Arabic or Levantine. Bshuufkon soon, inshallah!”