Arabic literature is still partly shaped by a story written in Europe more than a century ago. It begins in the eighth century, when Baghdad under the Abbasid caliphs became a centre of science, ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

The U.S. Department of Education has quietly rescinded a seminal 2015 “Dear Colleague” letter that outlined for schools and districts how they can comply with their legal obligations to serve English ...

The longest word in the English language is a massive 189,819-letter chemical name for the protein titin. While it’s technically the correct name based on scientific rules, most dictionaries don’t ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. The power of papal English I was one among ...

A rumor that Liberian President Joseph Boakai wrote an open letter to the people of the U.S. offering to teach English to President Donald Trump circulated online in mid-2025. For example, the text ...

‘The History of Letters and Movement’ runs at Al Rahmaniyah Mall until 20 July The exhibition is held in collaboration with the Holy Quran Academy in Sharjah and traces the evolution of Arabic script ...

American Harris English may be without caddie Eric Larson for next week's Open Championship at Royal Portrush after the bag man was denied entry to the UK. English, the world number 19 golfer, said a ...

This article focuses on the formation, types, and functions of the passive construction in English and Classical Arabic. Syntactically speaking, English has both agentive and agentless passive ...

Introduction: The extant experimental study measured the effect of a reading training on developing word recognition skills in English (the foreign language, FL) and Arabic (the first language, L1).

I recently spent a few weeks in Berlin. I found not only that English is spoken to a great extent by Germans and others who have made the city their home, but signage is often bilingual and/or ...