The government is attempting to recruit Americans who speak Arabic or Farsi -- mostly because linguists able to speak the languages are in woefully short supply. Colleges in the United States ...

Currently, though, we have a grand total of 27 diplomats who are trained in Arabic at level 4 or 5. Bremer says the reason is primarily bureaucratic. Diplomats can’t get training in Arabic until after ...

WASHINGTON – Two months ago, Christopher Ross was languishing in diplomatic exile, his 30-year career as a foreign service officer topped out with two ambassadorships. After the catastrophe he saw ...

Rabbi Elhanan Miller, a 40-year old rabbi in Jerusalem with a knitted kippah – the distinguishing sign of a modern observant Jew in Israel – is not your average Israeli rabbi. He speaks and teaches ...

Jan. 7, 2007 — -- There are 1,100 employees in the U.S. embassy in Iraq, all living in the middle of a war among and against Arabic-speaking enemies. Of those embassy employees, the Iraq Study ...