A free online platform designed to teach Arabic to non-native speakers was recently launched by Al Qasimia University, in an attempt to help spread Arabic learning in the community. Named 'Mubeen ...

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A friend sent me the following 104-year-old quote by journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken. It appeared July 26, 1920, in the Baltimore Evening Sun: “As democracy is perfected, the office of ...