Arabic is one of those languages that’s considered extremely difficult for English speakers to acquire, right up there with Chinese and Pashto. Any book that promises mastery in months is lying; more ...

Ten-year-old Caleb Townsend is well beyond learning his alphabet, but on Wednesday he and other students at San Jose Elementary School were learning the alphabet all over again - this time in Arabic.

When I walked into Arabic class last week, Karam, my teacher, cheerily asked me how I was doing. I said, “Tamaam, hamdulillah,” which means, “Fine, thanks be to God.” But I was lying. I’d just spent a ...

Arabic originated from the Proto-Semitic languages of the ancient Middle East a millennium ago. It is now the spoken language of more than 400 million people worldwide. In 1973, the United Nations (UN ...

Salamoualaikoum, I would like to know whether it's better to learn and recite Quran in its original language, in Arabic, or whether it's also aloowed to learn and recite Quran in a transliteration, ...