Melissa Block talks with Clark Lombardi of the University of Washington, an assistant professor who specializes in Islamic law and comparative constitutional law. Lombardi has translated the proposed ...

The Assyrian language is one of the oldest living Semitic languages and forms the cornerstone of the identity of the Assyrian people. In Iraq, the government of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) has ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria for centuries In this picture taken May 10, artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun ...

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“I am no linguist, but as far as I can remember I have always held a strange fascination for Language,” notes Iraqi blogger Layla Anwar. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

The Iraq supplemental spending bill to be voted on Thursday by the House Appropriations Committee lacks enforcement language that some of Congress’s most liberal members wanted to see. Members of the ...

In a further sign of growth in Iraq’s nascent study abroad market, global education company Pearson opened its first language testing centre in the county last month in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi ...

Washington (Reuters) - What do you call a situation where 3,000 citizens of a country kill each other every month through bombing, shooting and beheading? If the country is Iraq, it depends on who ...