Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, proficiency in multiple languages can be of paramount importance in small and mid-sized countries. Emphasis on teaching foreign languages can have the adverse ...

RABAT (Reuters) - When Hassna Amzil's parents speak their original language of Amazigh, she struggles to follow as part of a generation whose families moved from Morocco's mountains to its ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy is getting lost in translation. With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as ...

University of Florida International Studies senior Gillian Shaw stands in front of a Moroccan King's Mausoleum, Muhammad V, in Rabat, Morocco. Shaw, 20, said she went to Morocco this summer for the ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. In a recent interview with African Writing Online, Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-American author, elaborates on her educational ...

As a child, Mohammed Ait Amghar, a shopkeeper from the Azilal region in Morocco, could only speak his native language, Amazigh. In 1982, when he was 8 years old, he felt unwell in class, his teacher ...

2001-03-16 04:00:00 PDT Rabat, Morocco-- A war of words over the Berber and Arabic languages is heating up in Morocco, threatening to divide the kingdom in much the same way the battle between French ...

In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. In a recent interview with African Writing Online, Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-American author, elaborates on her educational ...