Marivi Howell-Arza dreams of becoming a social worker for Arabic-speaking refugees. They remind the Duke University student of her mother, who fled Cuba in the 1960s. Howell-Arza feels an affinity ...

A little more than five years ago, the University of Nevada, Reno and The Northern Nevada International Center partnered to offer Arabic language courses to community members and University students.

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.

Khalli-walli. Yalla. Never Mind. Move it. Some Arabic terms are familiar to non-Arabic speaking expatriates. But for the vast majority, Arabic is all Greek to them. It has been suggested that non-Arab ...

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 ...