The minor in Arabic Language, Literature, and Culture aims to bring students to an advanced level of proficiency in the Arabic language, combined with meaningful cultural competence in contemporary ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic and to the culture of Arabic-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one ...

In the late 1960s, Jaroslav Stetkevych, a scholar of Arabic literature, delivered a lecture to a group of academics of the Middle East at St Antony’s College, Oxford. While not excluding himself from ...

Zora O’ Neill’s book, All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World, derives its title from a verse in a pre-Islamic era poem by the renowned poet Imru al-Qays. In the prologue the ...

Too many of us live in Dubai without ever learning the local lingo (and no, knowing the words ‘habibi’ and ‘hallas’ doesn’t count). Stastics are fluid, but Arabic is considered to be the fifth most ...

How do we learn what a word is? How do we come to know the difference between words, and how they fit into the categories of grammar? Some of that knowledge comes from explicit instruction. The people ...

As the coronavirus pandemic forces people around the world to stay home, coming out of lockdown knowing a new language – even one of the hardest to learn in the world – is possible, experts say. For ...

Marhaba, kifek, salam – Arabic is one of the oldest languages about and if you live in Dubai, it’s about time you learn the language. According to language learning app and e-learning platform Babbel ...