Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture ...

The Irish, who gained their independence almost three decades before Israel, have singularly failed to revive their native ...

English is unsurprisingly the de facto official language of America, despite no official language ever being legally or ...

There have been plenty of words, phrases, and pronunciations that might not mean much to many - but for those who grew up in ...

Honey, both the word and the substance, are ever present in Arab culture. The word, much like in English, can be used to call ...

Every day, I watch Palestinians mourn in the language I speak with my own mother. If the world understood the beauty of their ...