Arabic is a shockingly popular language. It’s the official language of most Arab countries. That includes approximately 1.8 billion people. It’s also one of the six official languages of the United ...

Spencer Michels reports on America's growing interest to learn Arabic since September 11th. The terrorism attacks and the war in Afghanistan have prompted many Americans to try to learn more about ...

I share my daily life with two million Arabic speakers, and I can barely speak a word to them. The people who fix my car are ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...