Bittar is an artist, educator, writer and California organizer for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She lives in North Park. Why would someone like me care about Arabic? My family’s ...
The Middle East’s cultural influence on the world is vast and enduring – evident not only in food, fashion, mathematics and medicine, but also in the global lingua franca, the English language that ...
Boat in the sea at Mahabalipuram beach, Tamil Nadu, India (Credit: Sandipan Dutta/Alamy) Coastal towns across southern India still reveal how medieval travellers once used the power of language to ...