Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

Donald Trump has reportedly told world leaders that Iran is ‘about to surrender’ after nearly two weeks of bombardment. The US president reportedly made the claim to world leaders from the G7 ...

A gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Virginia, shooting three people before students subdued him.

Speechmatics today launched its new Arabic–English bilingual model, a single production-ready model that handles Arabic dialects and English simultaneously. It can be deployed on-premises and ...

Saudi Arabia’s new National Policy for strengthens the Arabic language / image: file Saudi Arabia has officially launched a historic "National Policy for the Arabic Language," marking a major shift in ...

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, January 21, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- The leader in specialized Arabic document intelligence, CoreTechX, opens new tab, has announced the launch of its proprietary OCR system. Until ...

Arabic and Hebrew belong to the Semitic language family, a group of languages spoken primarily throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia, though speakers can be found all around the globe. They are ...

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has unveiled Falcon-H1 Arabic, a large language model that establishes itself as the world’s leading Arabic artificial intelligence (AI) system, ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...