AMMAN — With some 43 per cent of Syrian school-aged refugee children in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt having no access to education as of March 2018, according to a report by international ...

Arabic is a shockingly popular language. It’s the official language of most Arab countries. That includes approximately 1.8 billion people. It’s also one of the six official languages of the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million speakers. Historically, it has played a significant role in religious, literary and academic traditions. However, in an ...

Khalli-walli. Yalla. Never Mind. Move it. Some Arabic terms are familiar to non-Arabic speaking expatriates. But for the vast majority, Arabic is all Greek to them. It has been suggested that non-Arab ...

Forced to leave their homes for unfamiliar communities, refugees often struggle to secure very basic survival necessities. But with a unique knowledge of the culture and language from which they were ...

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 ...