A viral claim has been doing the rounds that New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will require elementary school students ...

Claims that NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will require students to learn “Arabic numerals” are false; he has made no such ...

Twice a week, Vimala Ragunathan, 34, and her seven-year-old son, Eoshren Nathan, spend time together going over the minor’s Arabic lessons from school. They spell and read, and sometimes learn ...

You might find it funny that a non-Arabic speaker is writing an article about teaching and learning Arabic, but languages and how they function, have always fascinated me and are, at least part of the ...

Arabic is one of those languages that’s considered extremely difficult for English speakers to acquire, right up there with Chinese and Pashto. Any book that promises mastery in months is lying; more ...

Spencer Michels reports on America's growing interest to learn Arabic since September 11th. The terrorism attacks and the war in Afghanistan have prompted many Americans to try to learn more about ...

The fallout from the unrest in the Middle East has made the choices for those hoping to study Arabic in the region narrower and more challenging. However, adventurous students are still drawn to the ...

As I enter the classroom, I have to look twice to make sure I have, indeed, walked into a class. I see relaxed children, sitting on floor cushions, with the teacher passing a brightly coloured ball ...

No wonder, a lot of students are paying keen attention to learning Arabic language along with other subjects like science, economics, commerce and mathematics in their schools. Many firms in the ...

Last March, Gordon Gray Jr. ’65 bestowed a $1.5 million endowment to encourage the study of Arabic language at Harvard, especially among undergraduates, after Sept. 11. Gray, an alumnus of the Near ...