It is a significant move for a country where Emiratis make up less than 12% of the population, and where Arabic has ceded ground in daily life.

Bittar is an artist, educator, writer and California organizer for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She lives in North Park. Why would someone like me care about Arabic? My family’s ...

In most multilingual African countries, language policy is a highly charged and controversial issue. It touches on regional identity, religion and political power – as is evident in Chad, in central ...

In an age where connectivity is widespread and knowledge is readily available, the landscape of language learning has changed considerably. Gone are the days when we had to trawl through dictionaries ...

On 18 December the UN will mark World Arabic Language Day to honour the role the language has played in the development of human civilisation. Spoken by around 400 million people across the globe, the ...

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Always Carry Salt By Samantha Ellis Pegasus Books, 288 pages, $29 This charming and important memoir starts with two mothers ...

The board of trustees at Edmonton Public Schools has approved a locally developed course that will provide students with the ...

Alef Education’s Arabic language learning solution, Arabits, will be implemented across Central School, Habitat Schools, and ...