Princeton undergrads should apply for funding via the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) http://www.princeton.edu/studentfunding. Among other awards, the Dean's ...

Incoming freshman Rosa Shapiro-Thompson has been awarded a High School Education Award by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). One of QFI’s three Arabic Study Awards, the High School Education ...

Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal ...

Sarah Washington ’17 began studying Arabic as a high school freshman after an organization began offering after-school classes at her school, Washington Latin Public Charter School. “I started ...

BYU students take a truck safari in Wadi Rum, Jordan. BYU's intensive Arabic program allows students to experience Jordanian culture firsthand. (Melena Warden) Five times a day voices raised in prayer ...

Israeli public schools require students to study Arabic, but the instruction is often either poor or doesn’t stick, and most Jews retain none or very little of it. An increasing number, though, are ...

Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a mother tongue, according to a new study. The research offers an explanation for the objective and ...

With the right kind of dedication and passion, those learning Arabic can start speaking the language in just three months, according to Naseem Hamza Ahmed, Academic Director of language learning ...

The brain's right hemisphere is not involved in the initial processes of reading in Arabic, due to the graphic complexity of Arabic script. Therefore reading acquisition in Arabic is much harder in ...

Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. The University of Haifa team say people use both sides of their brain when they begin reading a ...