"In the past, my perception of the Arabic language was not so good. We had the impression that Arabs hate Kurds and Kurds hate Arabs. But when you learn Arabic, you destroy this barrier. So now (I ...

The Assyrian language is one of the oldest living Semitic languages and forms the cornerstone of the identity of the Assyrian people. In Iraq, the government of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) has ...

IRBIL, Iraq — In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in perfect, ...

Jan. 7, 2007 — -- There are 1,100 employees in the U.S. embassy in Iraq, all living in the middle of a war among and against Arabic-speaking enemies. Of those embassy employees, the Iraq Study ...

(AFP) -- Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some schools and during church ...

In a further sign of growth in Iraq’s nascent study abroad market, global education company Pearson opened its first language testing centre in the county last month in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi ...

The eye-catching ad begins with a giant numeral six, then continues: “Number of fluent Arabic speakers in the United States Embassy in Iraq.” Solutions for Our Future, a coalition of higher-education ...

Melissa Block talks with Clark Lombardi of the University of Washington, an assistant professor who specializes in Islamic law and comparative constitutional law. Lombardi has translated the proposed ...

Washington (Reuters) - What do you call a situation where 3,000 citizens of a country kill each other every month through bombing, shooting and beheading? If the country is Iraq, it depends on who ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria for centuries — Waleed AL-KHALID Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian ...

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Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria for centuries In this picture taken May 10, artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun ...