When Aline Sara, a Lebanese-American student at Columbia University, wanted to practice her Arabic, she couldn’t find the right resources in New York City. There were plenty of classes to learn the ...

Riham Shendy reads with her children at their home in New York. / Credit: Courtesy of Riham Shendy Arabic, which is spoken in more than two dozen nations, actually functions as two connected but ...

In Lebanon, an Arabic language festival encourages children to learn the Arabic alphabet Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. The ...

New research by a UK psychologist sheds light on reading differences. Arabic readers recognize words in a different way from readers of other languages, a new study suggests. Arabic readers recognise ...

Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

All language instructors teach their students the four communicative language skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Recently, greater emphasis on the discrete skill of listening ...

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 ...