Haim Blanc’s seminal 1964 study, Studies in Judeo-Arabic Dialects, highlights this practice as a cornerstone of religious education in Aleppo and Damascus. The 20th century saw the Syrian Jewish ...
“This man was a pioneer really in the proper meaning of the word. He was the one that introduced Arabic programming,” Fakhry explains. “Pretty much every house in the Middle East had a Sakhr ...
Somaya Sallam’s kindergarten class clapped, danced and spun their tiny bodies to a tune sung entirely in Arabic. In this classroom at Bellevue’s Ardmore Elementary, where 40 minutes of every ...