At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text ...

Communication freshman Rama Darayyad, a communications sciences and disorders student, hopes her major will help her travel abroad and provide hearing aids to kids in places like Lebanon and Jordan.

As a student at Montana State University more than 10 years ago, Jeremy Fowler decided to take Arabic, a language he was only dimly aware of and was surprised to learn was available to him. Today he ...

Bellevue Community College, in Washington State, feels like home to Fahad al-Balushi. He planned his arrival from Oman for early August, anticipating an adjustment period that would include trying to ...

Since terrorists from Arab countries attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has been desperately seeking to hire Arabic speakers. But even now, more than 2½ years later, the ...

“As-salamu alaykum” is a phrase that may become as popular as “bonjour” or “hello.” As of 2010, Arabic has become the 10th most spoken language in America, a trend that has not gone unfelt by the ...

A woman said in a television interview that if the issue of teaching came back to her, she would completely stop teaching grammar and linguistics in schools because it is not necessary, what is ...

A former Iraqi investigative journalist, working through a Bridgewater College student as his interpreter, is giving a select group of Bridgewater students an immersive – and free – introduction to ...

JERUSALEM — Israel’s first Arab Cabinet minister has called on the Education Ministry to make Arabic studies mandatory for every Jewish high school student, in a letter that has stirred lively debate ...