Shawnee Mission South High School is home to one of the country's oldest high school Arabic programs. Every Friday, nearly a dozen students sit in chairs circled around their classroom — no desks in ...

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Having just returned from reporting in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan for Education Week and exploring Egypt (on vacation), I’m particularly interested in an article just published in Childhood ...

Education systems worldwide are experiencing a seismic shift driven by technological advancements and evolving societal challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic and educational inequalities. The demand ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are important considerations that educators should keep in mind when teaching Arab and Muslim students? Guest-editor Dr. Sawsan Jaber “kicked off” a multipart ...

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.

How does a state keep its capital city united? A strange question, and one that is clearly not an issue in most of the world. But in Israel, whose capital is the most coveted and contested city in the ...

ARABIC is a “perfect, smooth and rich language”, wrote Ernest Renan, a 19th-century French thinker, who praised its “extensive vocabulary, the accuracy of its meanings and the beautiful logic of its ...

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GOD, SAYS the Koran, chose Arabic for his revelation because it is easy to understand. But many of the world’s 470m Arabic-speakers beg to differ. According to a report by the World Bank, almost 60% ...

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 ...