Soon, sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will walk into the government autonomous Ernakulam Maharaja’s College campus here to learn Arabic and Urdu. The country’s premier investigating ...

ABOUT a couple of years ago, a news item appeared in a Karachi newspaper highlighting the sorry state of Persian in academic institutions. It mentioned that at that time no college in Karachi offered ...

THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in Arabic and Persian as well. Other prosodic terms such as behr (metre), rukn (feet of a ...

An online session on ‘The Art of Calligraphy’ in Arabic, Persian and Urdu’ was presented by Jawahar Kala Kendra. The hour-long class was conducted by calligraphy artist, Khurshid Alam. The programme ...

The culture and history of the UAE ensure that English and Arabic are the most popular language courses available. Languages such as Urdu and Hindi are commonly spoken in the UAE but now, courses in ...