Mr. Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Global Communications. Commissioner-General for the United Nations’ participation in Expo 2020 Dubai ...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...

There’s a difference between Islamic and Arabic phrases. Islamic phrases are religious expressions, often used by Muslims worldwide regardless of ethnicity. These phrases are primarily used by Muslims ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...