* Arabic language students rare sight, schools suffer * Studying was pretext used by radicals * Yemen embassies screen visa applicants By Raissa Kasolowsky SANAA, June 4 (Reuters) - When Umar ...

"Jibbali poetry is a means for us to preserve the language and teach it to the new generation," Kathiri, 41, told AFP. The overwhelming majority of Omanis speak Arabic, but in the mountainous coastal ...

When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab enrolled in an Arabic course in Yemen last year, few who met him could have guessed what this withdrawn young man was really up to, nor the devastating impact he ...