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Arabic

Noam Tsuriely is a 28-year-old Jewish Israeli hip-hop artist from Jerusalem, whose debut album will drop later this summer.
Planet Hip Hop
This Israeli rapper brings people together through multilingual lyrics
Dima Basha (right) watches dubbed cartoons with her daughter, Angelina, to help her learn formal Arabic.
Culture
How SpongeBob SquarePants is helping one Syrian woman preserve her culture for her daughter
A Syrian class in Istanbul. Many of the students hadn't attending school for years.
Conflict
Syrian parents in Turkey worry their kids are losing their culture
Black and white photo of man at table, with books
Education
How a Lebanese immigrant helped pave the way for the study of Islam and Muslim culture in the US
Hani Abo Awad teaches Arabic at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington. He is an Arab-Israeli.
Education
The teacher’s an Israeli Arab, the students are Jewish American and the subject is Arabic
An Egyptian women shops at a vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt
Culture
Learn Arabic in just 25 years
Ghaith is a Syrian refugee living in Beirut. He can't work there but now he can earn a living as an online Arabic teacher.
Education
This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.
Linguists Arik Sadan (in his Israeli Army days) and Sobhi Bahloul. Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Bahloul authored the Hebrew curriculum for Gaza's Palestinians.
Culture
A tale of two linguists and the conflict that separates them
Rihab Massif teaches at a preschool in Austin, Texas. Her mother tongue is Arabic.
Culture
You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too
Translator extraordinaire Ayub Nuri on the right, along with reporter Aaron Schachter and their driver Abdulrazzaq Zanjeel at a street cafe in Baghdad in 2003.
Conflict
Fixers are a foreign reporter’s best friend — and often their lifeline
Islamic State
Conflict
ISIS? ISIL? The Islamic State? We really still can’t decide?
In 2012, Tarek Hamdi, from Egypt, received his US naturalization certificate. He first applied for citizenship in 2001 but faced more than a decade of delays and denials until he won his case.
Conflict & Justice
A recently-uncovered federal program turned one man’s path to citizenship into a 11-year trek