Arabic and ‘I Speak Arabic’ should be the theme of today, not of a bygone era | Ismail Syed

By Ismail Syed Twitter @IsmailYSyed This piece is also available as PDF for reading or download here. It is great to see that in a region that couldn't be further away, culturally and geographically, from Arabia, in a remotest US state of Alaska, an American boy, William Scannell as seen in the video below, is …

Urdu: Once a thriving Lingua Franca but now a fading language | Ismail Syed

Image: Official banner of Urdu Academy, Delhi, an executive cultural dept of Indian Government of Delhi; courtesy of Gov of NCT Delhi By Ismail Syed  Twitter @IsmailYSyed Ismail Syed is a Shariah Scholar lives in London and provides advisory services on Muslim and faith issues. He also provides Shariah compliance advisory services to governmental and non-governmental …