Natural disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions can occur without warning or with greater force than anticipated. These events reshape people’s lives as well as our landscape and remind us that we’re not as in control as we thought. In the first installment of this course, you will prepare to read and watch Arabic-language media reporting on a tsunami in Indonesia, wildfires in California, the effects of a Hurricane on the vanilla bean market, floods in Jordan and a volcano eruption in Hawaii.