Mona Zaki often receives strange looks when she answers her mobile phone in public. Among her closest friends and family members, the 58-year-old mother speaks colloquial Coptic. “People look at me if ...

Nick Birney, 18, gained a new family and started to learn a new language this summer. For six weeks while he lived in Cairo, Egypt, the Lawrence High School senior traded the familiarity of English ...

Egypt’s Minister of Education and Technical Education Reda Hegazy signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ambassador Michele Quaroni of Italy in Cairo to include the teaching of ...

The Ministry of State for Immigration and Affairs of Egyptians Abroad organized a conference to commemorate World Arabic Language Day, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the United ...

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi, the ...

The idea of Ancient Egypt has mystified people for generations — the glittering cities of gold and marble, lapis lazuli-adorned queens, and pyramids that spear the sky have the modern world’s ...

Twelve preparatory schools in three governorates in Egypt will offer Chinese as an option for a second language in the upcoming 2022/2023 academic year, Mohamed Megahed, deputy minister of education ...

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt -- including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for ...

Janet Johnson’s interest in Egypt has been a lifelong fascination. “My father was interested in ancient Egypt, so I just read all the books he brought home from the library,” says Johnson, the Morton ...

Egypt’s Minister of Education and Technical Education, Reda Hegazy, announced that his ministry has prepared a leaflet on the most used signs in sign language to be taught in all schools across the ...

Egypt and China celebrated on Tuesday evening the launch of a Chinese language club in the Egyptian capital Cairo, while awarding the winners of the local Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition for ...