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Twenty-seven doesn’t feel old enough to have spent a very long time doing anything, and accounting for a few decades’ worth of life still seems like something too grown-up for me to ever be capable of ...
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 ...
Students learning Arabic at Central Junior High in Bedford have three teachers – the two in their classroom and another one 5,000 miles away. In Morocco. Once a month, the class calls him up on Skype.
When I made Aliyah 31 years ago, I told the bespectacled bureaucrat at the Ministry of Interior that his repeated demands for arcane, unobtainable and unnecessary documents were driving me bananas. I ...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Before taking Arabic language classes at Denver’s North High School, Rachel Saghbazarian had to ...
University students in the UAE are increasingly using their college breaks to upskill and gain a competitive edge in today's highly competitive job market. The students perceive these breaks – whether ...
Every street sign in Israel is in Hebrew and Arabic, but many Israelis can’t understand a standard conversation in Arabic. In a moving letter to Haaretz written this week by Lital Lam, a student at ...
ROMAINVILLE, France — Early on Sunday mornings, Habiba Hatem, 9, prepares her own breakfast, grabs her flashy pink school bag and jumps into her father’s car — bound for Arabic lessons at her local ...
Until he was 21 years old, Indian expat Qammaruddeen Najmuddeen did not speak a word of Arabic. Triggered by an "embarrassing" incident at a Sharjah family court in 2011, he vowed to learn and teach ...