NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Is language key to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict?

  • Written by Stanley Dubinsky, Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina
A teacher from the Arab town of Kabul gives an Arabic class to Israeli schoolchildren.AP Photo/Oded Balilty

According to a 2017 Pew Research Center poll, many people believe language is “the core of national identity.”

More than 70 percent of the population of the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan agree on this. And yet, as...

Read more: Is language key to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict?

More Articles ...

  1. US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a row. Let's stop the trend now
  2. Shades of green: What gig economy workers can learn from the success of romance writers
  3. How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery breakthrough
  4. Deadly California mudslides show the need for maps and zoning that better reflect landslide risk
  5. New study reveals why some people are more creative than others
  6. Closure of DC public charter school offers important lessons for Secretary DeVos and school choice debate
  7. What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as 'shining example'
  8. Donald Trump doesn't understand Haiti, immigration or American history
  9. What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant'
  10. Craft beer is becoming the wine of New England by redefining 'terroir'
  11. Does defense actually win championships?
  12. What Jeff Sessions doesn't understand about medical marijuana
  13. Thanks to the North Carolina case, partisan gerrymandering's day of reckoning may soon be upon us
  14. Quantum speed limit may put brakes on quantum computers
  15. Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
  16. Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence
  17. When I got DACA, I was forced to revert to a name I had left behind
  18. Is warming in the Arctic behind this year's crazy winter weather?
  19. Turning power over to states won't improve protection for endangered species
  20. Autonomous vehicles could help millions of people catch up on sleep, TV and work
  21. For black celebrities like Oprah, it's impossible to be apolitical
  22. The 'greatest pandemic in history' was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
  23. When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them
  24. Targeting hidden roots of workplace harassment is key to fulfilling Oprah's promise to girls
  25. More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies — and that's a good thing
  26. MLK's vision of love as a moral imperative still matters
  27. Defanged regulations have big media licking their chops
  28. Rejection of subsidies for coal and nuclear power is a win for fact-based policymaking
  29. Why is El Salvador so dangerous? 4 essential reads
  30. How California's megachurches changed Christian culture
  31. Why most nonprofit boards resemble whiteboards and how to fix that
  32. Why children's savings accounts should be America's next wealth transfer program
  33. Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits them
  34. Does Apple have an obligation to make the iPhone safer for kids?
  35. Fit to serve: Data on transgender military service
  36. From cowboys to commandos: Connecting sexual and gun violence with media archetypes
  37. Will religiously unaffiliated Americans increase support for liberal policies, in 2018 and beyond?
  38. Universities must prepare for a technology-enabled future
  39. Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery – so they are practicing in the shadows
  40. Why Iran's protests matter this time
  41. Why states may get away with creative income tax maneuvers
  42. How does assisting with suicide affect physicians?
  43. Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
  44. Driverless cars might follow the rules of the road, but what about the language of driving?
  45. Scientist at work: I've dived in hundreds of underwater caves hunting for new forms of life
  46. From bad to worse? 5 things 2018 will bring to the Middle East
  47. Trump's offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon
  48. The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner
  49. When charities let telemarketers gouge donors
  50. Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky