Seventy-four years ago, Henry Luce published “The American Century,” an essay that argued that American culture would play a starring role in creating a global environment in which the United States ...

Iran has banned the teaching of all foreign languages, including English and Arabic, in kindergartens and primary schools, with immediate effect, state media reported Tuesday. "The teaching of foreign ...

A decision by Qatar’s educational authorities that the country’s leading public university should revert to Arabic as its language of instruction has stirred up debate in the small, gas-rich Persian ...

The British University in Dubai is working with various academicians to develop a course to teach Arabic as a Foreign Language and get it internationally certified, which educationist says is ...

Parents in Sharjah have praised the emirate's latest move to make Arabic the medium of instruction in government nurseries. R. Musabah, an Emirati mother, said it was a "wise decision". "We need to ...

Abu Dhabi The limited use of Arabic in domestic settings, and a lack of resources to support learning it, is still discouraging young pupils from gaining real proficiency in the language, experts said ...

ROMAINVILLE, France — Early on Sunday mornings, Habiba Hatem, 9, prepares her own breakfast, grabs her flashy pink school bag and jumps into her father’s car — bound for Arabic lessons at her local ...

ARABIC is a “perfect, smooth and rich language”, wrote Ernest Renan, a 19th-century French thinker, who praised its “extensive vocabulary, the accuracy of its meanings and the beautiful logic of its ...