Her self-funded educational kit, which is due out in early 2021, includes a booklet that explains how each letter is pronounced and how the letters change their form, as well as a 400-word dictionary.

What makes it even more important to have this conversation about Arabic is how these communities are treated and stereotyped in the United States. I will now speak directly to you — you who is taking ...

Most of the letters have four different forms, depending on whether they stand alone or come at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Even then, so far so good. But in Arabic, as in Hebrew ...