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

Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

The above claim was false. Mamdani had made no such announcement. Additionally, "Arabic numerals" is the common term for the digits 0 through 9, a number system that is clearly already part of all ...

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 ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham Sarah Wilson and Wajiha Mekki students Wajiha Mekki and Sarah Wilson are among the 500 students out of 5,000 applicants who have been selected for the United States ...

Coming of age during the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, some of the students in UCLA’s advanced Arabic class want to launch diplomatic or military careers. Others seek to delve into the Koran and ...

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 ...

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 ...

First it was Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan who was reportedly learning Urdu diction for his upcoming movie Dishoom. Now reports state that Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar will be learning Arabic. Read: ...