PDO University of Texas, Austin

FACTS:
1. UT at Austin has an approximate enrollment of 42,000 students.
2. UT has the largest department in Middle Eastern studies in the nation.
3. Heatwave in Austin--103 degrees plus!

After seminar I went to a museum exhibit of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A rubai is a four-line poem (like haiku). Over 2000 rubaiyat are ascribed to Khayyam (Persian/Iranian poet) who lived during the eleventh century. The final line of a Khayyam rubai often contains a "sting in the tail" that elucidates the ideas in the previous lines.