Just a short ferry ride from Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco is richly influenced by old Andalusia, nomadic Saharan rhythms and Berber traditions. The repertoire of popular Moroccan ...

A new academic study shows that Moroccan Arabic, Darija, is increasingly valued by foreign learners, challenging long-standing biases that favored Egyptian and Levantine dialects. Once immersed in ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. Charlotte is an anthropologist who, for the past year and a half, has been conducting field work in Morocco. Her research is ...

Students learning Arabic at Central Junior High in Bedford have three teachers – the two in their classroom and another one 5,000 miles away. In Morocco. Once a month, the class calls him up on Skype.

Moreover, only half of middle schoolers in Morocco move on to high school, and less than 15 percent of high schoolers graduate due to the policy of teaching in classical Arabic rather than the local ...

In some countries, school systems strive to produce bilingual students. In Morocco, students are now expected to be quadrilingual, and it is causing friction among the country’s conservative and ...

After winning second place on “Arab Super Star,” Lebanon’s version of “American Idol” in 2007, a young Moroccan singer spent the next few years in the U.S., performing popular Arabic songs in ...

As a child, Mohammed Ait Amghar, a shopkeeper from the Azilal region in Morocco, could only speak his native language, Amazigh. In 1982, when he was 8 years old, he felt unwell in class, his teacher ...

Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita announced an imminent reform of Arabic language and Moroccan culture teaching for diaspora children, as part of the establishment of the Mohammedia Foundation.

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Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has detailed Rabat’s response to the suspension of the Arabic language and Moroccan culture program in the Spanish regions of Madrid and Murcia, warning that ...