Article: Bringing the Arab world to U.S. classrooms: amidst few resources and emerging demand, one student's creative learning technology is now being marketed as a helpful teaching tool for Arabic professors nationwide.(teaching arabic language)

Article: UC-Berkeley campus offers fewer Arabic classes
University Wire;  May 16, 2005 ;     468 words ......Calif. -- Despite a growing demand for Arabic translators in the United States...problems will force the university to cut introductory Arabic enrollment and turn away scores of...projected number of lower-division Arabic classes offered by the university...should be expanding our offerings in ...

Article: Arabic: language of Islam.(how the Arab language is written and spoken)
Faces: People, Places, and Cultures;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......alaykum! Peace be upon you! is a common greeting in Arabic, the official language of Saudi Arabia and 24 other...In fact, about 200 million people worldwide speak Arabic. Why is Arabic so widely spread? It is the language of the Muslim...

Article: School weighs offering Arabic II
New Haven Register;  February 2, 2006 ;     266 words ......future of the high school's popular Arabic language program is in jeopardy, Principal...almost definitely offer another year of introductory Arabic, Hall said he's not sure if it can...would love to offer a second year of Arabic," Hall said. "We just have to wait and see." The Arabic ...

Article: TERRORISM, IRAQ WAR SPARK DEMAND FOR ARABIC CLASSES
Evansville Courier & Press;  September 13, 2004 ;     466 words ...Terrorism and the war in Iraq are fueling demand for Arabic classes at Indiana colleges as students seek to improve...understand the Mideast. At Indiana University, the number of introductory Arabic classes has doubled since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Arabic is the fastest-growing ...

Article: Arabic.com now offering domain registrations in Arabic at http://www.arabic.com.
M2 Presswire;  March 22, 2001 ;     487 words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-22 March 2001-Arabic.com: Arabic.com now offering domain registrations in Arabic at http://www.arabic.com (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22032001 Athens, GA USA -- Arabic.com, a company of Al-Noor International, Inc., announced...

Article: Students start boning up on Arabic Classes on language, culture filling up fast
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 2, 2001 ;     500 words ..."I had a vague interest in Arabic before, but the recent events pushed me to choose Arabic," said Ralph Rose, a graduate student taking Arabic 1 at Northwestern. The University of Chicago has had to create three sections of beginning Arabic, up...

Article: The Use of Arabic in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...JOHN KALTNER, The Use of Arabic in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography (CBQMS...1996). Pp. viii + 122. Paper $7.50. Arabic has been prominent among the languages...Akkadian have proven more fruitful than Arabic for recent scholars, Arabic has not...

Article: Demand for Arabic in Tel Aviv city council sparks furor
Jerusalem Post;  January 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Headline: Demand for Arabic in Tel Aviv city council sparks furor...elected Tel Aviv councilor Omar Siksik that Arabic be used in spoken and written communications...to give his maiden council speech in Arabic, and has demanded that council meeting...

Article: So you'd like to learn Arabic. Got a decade or so?(Features)(Ideas)
The Christian Science Monitor;  January 17, 2002 ;     689 words ......FBI Director Robert Mueller made a public plea for Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto translators. Many Americans, eager...need for translators soon. But all those now stuck in Introductory Arabic - with the daunting task of learning to decipher what...another language is never easy, but for English speakers, ...

Article: Readers weigh in on the challenges of learning Arabic.(Features)(Ideas)
The Christian Science Monitor;  February 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Farah's article, So you want to learn Arabic? Got a decade or so? which ran Jan. 17...native-born American who started learning Arabic in the '60s, spent some time living there...Arabia), got a PhD from U. of Michigan in Arabic, and spent most of my career at the Defense...

Article: Number of students studying Arabic still falls short of need.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO);  December 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......People who can read, write and speak Arabic are a key weapon in the war on terrorism...number of students majoring or minoring in Arabic language studies has more than tripled...the ranks of U.S. collegians studying Arabic remains surprisingly small _ at last count...

Article: Arabic language students increase: Higher interest still won't meet demand
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  December 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......People who can read, write and speak Arabic are a key weapon in the war on terrorism...number of students majoring or minoring in Arabic language studies has more than tripled...the ranks of U.S. collegians studying Arabic remains surprisingly small - at last count...

Article: Why the pool of Arabic speakers is still a puddle.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Christian Science Monitor Alex Marin studied Arabic for three years, one of them in Egypt. But that still doesn't make her a serious Arabic student. After learning enough to conduct...Marin is going to law school. Resuming Arabic afterward might be a pipe dream, she says...

Article: Demand for Arabic linguists far outweighs supply.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......People who can read, write and speak Arabic are a key weapon in the war on terrorism...number of students majoring or minoring in Arabic language studies has more than tripled...the ranks of U.S. collegians studying Arabic remains surprisingly small -- at last...