My good friend, Joe Faissal, was born 90 years ago in a sleepy village in Lebanon. After arriving in the U.S. in 1956, he married and went on to earn a degree in math and physics from the University ...

For Mary-Kate Wilson ’25, learning a language is about prioritizing communication over perfection. Since she began studying Arabic in middle school, Wilson has discovered that learning (and loving) ...

It doesn’t take much for Joe Faissal to wax eloquent on favorite subjects like family, faith and food, for example. (Trump, taxes and his beloved Nissan electric car also rank high on the list). He ...

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, Nassim Haddad was running three restaurants. One of them, al-Tannour, was on the road to the airport outside of Beirut. A special oven cooked fresh ...

A San Francisco correspondent’s telephone rang. “This,” said a cultured voice in perfect English, “is the Lebanese delegation. I wonder if you could help me. I’m supposed to be press relations officer ...

Bookshops across the Emirates have been rushing to replenish stocks of the Arabic edition of "Lessons from Life,” the new book of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, ...