Kuwait City, Kuwait--Kuwait dissolved parliament on Thursday after a protracted stalemate between cabinet ministers and lawmakers dragged on despite the accession of a new emir in December. The official KUNA news agency said a "royal decree was issued to dissolve the national assembly" elected last June following a proposal by the...

Morocco has the largest population of Berbers in North Africa, and Thursday's decision responds to a long-standing demand by activists to preserve the language, which is currently taught to just 330,000 pupils. The move "will necessitate more specialist and bilingual teachers", the education minister said.

"Despite all of the lovely words spoken by every company and organization during events such as International Women’s Day to prove how much they’re doing to achieve gender equality, we still have anachronisms that remind us how much we have to do to change hearts and minds and ensure fair...

Damascus, Syria--His medical studies in Syria keep Mohammed Shasho busy enough but whenever he can he also pores over German vocabulary and grammar points in hopes of a move to Europe. Like many youngsters in the war-ravaged country, he dreams of joining the almost one million Syrians already in Germany to...

“Language rights are also important human rights matters for both minorities and indigenous peoples. Special Rapporteurs have already been critical of the reduction, and in some cases, exclusion, of education in minority and indigenous languages which are discriminatory and thinly disguised efforts to assimilate minorities and indigenous peoples,” he highlights.

In a statement announcing measures to disrupt financiers of the Islamic State group, the State Department wrote of joint action between "the United States and Turkiye," written with an umlaut over the u. "The Turkish embassy did request that we use this spelling in our communications," State Department spokesman Ned...

The question of whether Canadian corporate leaders should be bilingual received a lot of attention last fall, after the president of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, said he did not have the time to learn French. He had to publicly apologize for those remarks a few days later.

This year’s theme is “Arabic Language, a bridge between civilizations."

In the long-run universal acceptance of all languages on the internet is expected to be good for business by allowing companies to reach new markets. But as of today, an estimated 37 percent of the world's population — 2.9 billion people — have still never used the internet, with 96...

The war-ravaged nation has themed its participation ‘We Will Rise Together’, inspired by its rich cultural past and future aspirations.

The company caved in to demands for gender equity space on social media site Arabic verbs and adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms Caving in to demands of female users for more gender-equity space on social media, Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users...