A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the ...

King Shahriyar and his brother King Shahzaman suspect their suffering to be unique in this world. Their wives have slept with other men, and this drives them to grief, to madness—Shahzaman skewers his ...

The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel Committee continues to translate award-winning works into English and French, in addition to printing, distributing, and making them available to the public. This ...

Can great literature survive the journey through a third language? That question anchored a spirited discussion on Thursday ...

Scientists identified an 11th-century astrolabe with Arabic inscriptions and Hebrew writings, highlighting a period when Muslims ruled in present-day Spain and scholarship and idea-sharing flourished.

Disney movies are typically dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, but the movie Frozen has been dubbed into Modern Standard Arabic. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Elias Muhanna of Brown University about why. If ...

CITY OF NEWBURGH – Hanan Ali, 16, spoke quietly into a cellphone while working on her assignment in Alyssa Cruz's eighth-grade social studies class on Thursday. Her voice was barely audible, but as ...