A few years ago I wrote an article for the Jordanian English weekly newspaper, The Star, entitled “The Head Beneath the Towel.” Thinking back to when I wrote the article, I remember the light in my ...

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 ...

San Diego, California (CNN)-- What's Arabic for: "Spineless school administrators who teach all the wrong lessons by caving in to fear, hysteria and prejudice?" The students at the Mansfield ...

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 ...

Shawnee Mission South High School is home to one of the country's oldest high school Arabic programs. Every Friday, nearly a dozen students sit in chairs circled around their classroom — no desks in ...

At a recent conference organised by the Unesco national committee in Beirut, a video was shown of people being interviewed in Arabic. Almost exclusively the interviewees answered in colloquial ...

Beyond the caucuses, life continues in Iowa with surprising irregularity. Thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Federal Language Acquisition Program, 230 elementary students in Kalona—population 2,300, ...