Stark was nearly thirty when she began to study Arabic.

Are there, for example, enough good scholarships to attract undergraduates and graduates to study Arabic?

There he worked as a textile designer and began to study Arabic in the local mosque school.

At 15 he began to study Sanskrit and Arabic on his own.

The report does not address the question of student supply and there is evidence of decline in applications to study Arabic.

I spent some time studying Arabic in Jordan and part of our class every day was learning dialect.

The survey found that 10,596 students were studying Arabic, compared with 5,505 in 1998, the last time the association collected such figures.

Fewer than 1 percent of all students enrolled in a foreign language course are studying Arabic.

"They both want to study Arabic," he said.

In 1927, when she was already 33, she managed to escape, going to Lebanon to study Arabic.