Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students in upper Manhattan will soon be learning Arabic, officials said. The program will teach the language to more than 200 second- to fifth-graders at Public School 368 in ...

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 ...

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 ...