How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

Mathematics and poetry are rarely spoken of in the same breath. One is assumed to be precise, structured, and governed by rules; the other fluid, emotional, and intuitive. Yet for Zeina Alqasem, a ...