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[rustyrockets]

This is not exactly for me but for a close friend, she has been offered an interview with them and asked me about this place but I haven't really heard anything about them (which can be good news for the internet???) and I can't really find any reviews or experiences.

What we can gather from the website is that they are located in Qatif and that they work mostly with kids but do some courses for adults, it also seems like a small place with OK premises (one thing that we also noticed is that the teachers seem to be from the Philipines).

Does anyone here know anything about them? Or at least does anyone have any tips on where to search to learn more?

Thanks in advance...

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rustyrockets said:
Or at least does anyone have any tips on where to search to learn more?

There's probably not much more to "learn" about this place other than what you can find with a quickie Google search. It's a small private for profit language school in the heart of the Eastern Province, isolated, and operating on a shoestring, like tens of thousands of similar outfits worldwide purporting to teach English to.......anybody that'll walk in the door and pay the fees.

If your "close friend" is in America or Europe, it's extremely doubtful this institute is in any position to actually bring a western teacher over as an employee or offer any benefits at all other than a chair and a desk from which to sally forth in the quest for excellence. They're probably interested only in English speakers of any nationality who'd like to do some part time work on the side. and who already are residents of KSA and living close by. Pay is probably by the hour, housing and transportation all on your own dime. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot miswak.

For those linguistically inclined, (a stretch, I realize), the term EZDIHAR is an abstract noun from the verb ZAHARA (with various related meanings) and means "The Flourishing" or The Blooming". No doubt, the founder of this school had in mind some sort of fictitious affiliation to the legendary AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY in Cairo to which the two names of the institutions are closely related. (Al AZHAR means The Most Luminous). One more thing....the E in Ezdihar is the colloquial pronunciation. More correctly that E should be an I and the word pronounced Iz Di Har, with the accent or stress on the last syllable.

[rustyrockets]

Thanks for your analysis, btw this is their job ad, it says that they will provide transportation and accomodation but who knows what the conditions are...

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