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Yahoo! signs up Arabic transliteration service

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:20:30 -0700
Licensing agreement with Yamli part of drive to increase user base across Arab world
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Louisville's Monarch High School to offer Arabic language classes beginning this fall

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:49:15 -0700
Starting in the fall, Monarch will become one of a small number of high schools nationwide to offer the language, adding it to the American Sign Language, French, German and Spanish classes in the school's world languages department.
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A Harlem Elementary School Makes Arabic Mandatory

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:14:57 -0700
The principal and parents at the Hamilton Heights School on Amsterdam Avenue chose Arabic as its mandatory language partly to help the school earn an International Baccalaureate designation.
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SchoolBook: A Harlem Elementary School Offers Arabic Lessons

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:35:22 -0700
The principal and parents at the Hamilton Heights School on Amsterdam Avenue chose to offer Arabic to second through fifth graders partly to help the school earn an International Baccalaureate designation.
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Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:23:38 -0700
Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor — even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.
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PS 368 In New York Will Make Arabic Language Studies Mandatory For Students

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:11:45 -0700
At PS 368 in the Hamilton Heights section of Manhattan, students who attend the school in the spring will be the first in the city to be required to study Arabic.
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Arabic mandatory at city public school

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:58:02 -0700
An upper Manhattan public elementary school will be the first in the city to require that students study Arabic, officials said yesterday. Beginning next semester, all 200 second- through fifth-graders at PS 368 in Hamilton Heights will be taught the language twice a week for 45 minutes — putting it on...
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His name also crude Arabic slang

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:56:37 -0700
France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.
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Lebanon's Arabic press digest - May 27, 2012

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:25:39 -0700
Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Sunday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.
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Morocco hosts world music festival while imprisoning dissident artists

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:52:53 -0700
Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor — even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.
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