Since terrorists from Arab countries attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has been desperately seeking to hire Arabic speakers. But even now, more than 2½ years later, the ...

Bellevue Community College, in Washington State, feels like home to Fahad al-Balushi. He planned his arrival from Oman for early August, anticipating an adjustment period that would include trying to ...

Communication freshman Rama Darayyad, a communications sciences and disorders student, hopes her major will help her travel abroad and provide hearing aids to kids in places like Lebanon and Jordan.

A student at Pine Bush High School in upstate New York recently recited the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic to help celebrate National Foreign Language Week. By the end of the day she had been verbally ...

You may have read about the controversy over the opening of the Kahlil Gibran School in Brooklyn, New York. It will be one of half a dozen or so public schools with a dual language program. In the ...