Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...

New York City's new Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced an online uproar over a tweet claiming he would mandate elementary students learn Arabic numerals. This controversy overshadowed his actual progressive ...

Posts circulating on social media claim Mamdani is expected to introduce new rules when he becomes New York Mayor in 2026 that will require all public elementary schools in the state to learn Arabic ...

In mid-November 2025, a rumor spread on X that New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would be introducing "Arabic numerals" to schools in the city. One post from the account of the prediction ...

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Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, captivated voters with his ability to speak multiple languages, including Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Spanish, Luganda, and Arabic. His international ...

During an interview with The New York Times’s 'Popcast,' Rosalía revealed that the project took more than two years to complete. Much of that time was spent not just composing, but studying and diving ...

Andrew Cuomo is making inroads with New York City’s Muslim community — vowing to open the first Arabic language charter school, if elected mayor, The Post has learned. The former governor, who is ...

Toronto principals have been told to use only English, French or instrumental versions of “O Canada” after a high school chose to play the national anthem in Arabic on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 ...

A Michigan police department sparked widespread outrage after recently unveiling — and then quickly deleting — a proposed new uniform patch for cops that was written in Arabic. The Dearborn Heights ...

The Dearborn Heights Police Department in Michigan announced an "optional patch" that included text in both Arabic and English. But then the department's Facebook page, in a follow-up post apparently ...

In the global race to develop generative AI models, attention tends to center on major companies and research institutes in the West and China. Flagship models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s ...