I could hear my mother giggling from the living room. “It is when you’re an Arab in America, Mama.” I may have been 12 or 13 years old when this conversation took place, even though my skilful word ...

Reema Saffarini reports on the problems students face when they shift from Arabic-medium schools to English-medium universities. Reema Saffarini reports on the problems students face when they shift ...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...

Arabic has become a much more widely spoken language in the United States in recent decades. The number of people ages 5 and older who speak Arabic at home in the U.S. rose from 215,000 in 1980 to 1.4 ...

Alexa can’t speak Arabic. Neither can Cortana. Siri can understand standardised Arabic - but not dialects. Google Translate is barely accurate. When it comes to understanding the world’s fifth most ...