Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote ...

Language is the heartbeat of a culture, and in Kuwait, mastering a few local phrases can transform your travel experience from transactional to deeply personal. This guide isn’t just about memorizing ...

Many nights after she finished treating patients at UAB’s Hoover Family Medicine clinic this spring, Sumayah Abed, M.D., assistant professor and family physician, sat down with a stack of documents ...

I was extremely nervous to begin studying Arabic at Georgetown University. Like most people who study Arabic, I had some valid concerns about learning a language radically different from my first ...

In the United States, most schools recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily. But what happens when the pledge is said in a language that, for the past 14 years, has been associated with an enemy? Those ...

NEW HAVEN –– The Arabic program at New Haven Public Schools is expanding, inspired largely by its growing population of students from Arabic-speaking countries, officials said. The district received a ...