For many years, SUNY Cortland students interested in studying abroad to learn Arabic were directed to American University in Cairo, Egypt. The Arab Spring of 2011, which resulted in a revolution and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As my 3-hour seminar on Modern Middle East history came to an end, a classmate approached me about ...

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 ...

Like many other first-generation Muslim kids in the Capital Region in the '90s, I grew up spending hours of my weekend at the local mosque, learning the ABCs of Arabic (or more accurately, Alif, Ba, ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...