Amid the political turmoil that pervades many parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, knowledge of the Arabic Language and Culture has become pivotal to many students seeking careers in the ...

The major in Middle East studies provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore this region’s historical, political, social and cultural complexity. Broadly conceived, this geographical ...

Director: Mohammed Kadalah, Ph.D. The Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (AIMES) minor offers a unique opportunity to explore the languages, cultures, histories, and traditions of a dynamic ...

Brigham Young University has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education as the headquarters of the newly created National Middle East Language Resource Center, a consortium of Middle Eastern ...

As interest in Arabic-language studies has risen over the past decade among Westerners, language programs in the Middle East and North Africa face new challenges. According to educators in the region, ...

This fall semester, students will have two new minors to choose from: Arabic and Middle Eastern and North African studies (MENA). The addition was welcomed by George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor ...

The emergence of Chat-GPT and similar platforms has created a buzz around large language model AI – artificial intelligence trained on vast sets of data from the internet to respond to text commands.

The U.S. Department of Education has renewed funding for the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University. The center represents a consortium of language experts from more ...

The Council of Arabic and Islamic Studies is kicking off September with its bi-annual Arabic Film and Poetry Series, a public forum that combats the stigma associated with Islam by showing the ...

Last year we reported that Arabic was set to overtake English as the most popular language used on Facebook across the region, and as SpotOn PR reports, the Arabic language has pulled ahead. Analysing ...