The term “Republic of Letters” is used by historians to refer to an international elite of scholars in the late 17th and early 18th centuries who pursued independent research and kept in touch with ...

WASHINGTON – The feds released an untranslated version of an Arabic letter yesterday that they said is linked to at least three of four teams of Sept. 11 hijackers. The letter is full of ...

Objects—everything from cars, birds, and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests. Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The speaker of Israel’s Knesset refused to sign the resignation letter of an Arab-Israeli lawmaker because it was written in Arabic. Yuli Edelstein sent the letter from Wael Younis ...

I was very interested by Jessica Hamzelou's report of newborn babies having a sense of a number line (26 August, p 9). Hamzelou notes that “in Western cultures, people tend to think of numbers ...