In an age when, supposedly, language is all the rage, artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are conspicuously narrow: they mostly deal with English to the exclusion of the world's hundreds ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Last fall, only five new students enrolled in the Arabic language and literature program at the United Arab Emirates University, the lowest number in the school’s 34-year ...

One of the world’s oldest languages, Arabic also makes an appearance among the hardest languages to learn for English speakers. Spoken across the Middle East and North Africa, the language earns this ...

I was extremely nervous to begin studying Arabic at Georgetown University. Like most people who study Arabic, I had some valid concerns about learning a language radically different from my first ...

On 18 December each year, the world celebrates the International Day of the Arabic Language. The date commemorates its recognition as one of six working languages of the General Assembly in the United ...