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Staff speaking Arabic, English, Urdu, Indonesian, Persian, and Turkish have been employed at the Inquire About Madinah center to help visitors to the Prophet’s Mosque. The multilingual team is also on hand to deal with queries about the…
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The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s language circuit, researchers report…
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Every year on June 6, the birthday of the great Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia celebrates the Day of the Russian Language. This day became an official holiday in 2011 after it was established by the United Nations…
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The French government issued a decision banning government employees from using some English terms in the country, specifically in the field of technology and video games. The changes were published, on Monday, in the official newspaper in…
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The German broadcasting regulator said Wednesday it had banned the transmission of the German-language channel of Russian state broadcaster RT, amid rising tensions between Moscow and the West. The transmission of the channel “RT DE” was…
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As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a flash point in the conflict. Facebook, which owns…
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Arabpop, a new Arab contemporary art and literature magazine in Italian, debuts on Wednesday in Italian bookshops. With over 140 color pages of original literature, articles, reviews, illustrations, photographs, music playlists and…
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Egyptian TV soap “Al-Tawoos” has become the first Ramadan series to be investigated by Egypt’s media regulatory body for its alleged use “of language offensive to family values.” The Supreme Media Council issued a statement Sunday saying…
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The languages of Arabic and Hebrew have a lot more in common than you might think. They are both of Semitic origin, they share some letters of the alphabet and some Hebrew and Arabic words are the same, among other things. Based on these…
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