High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Arabic Resources is a non-accredited private language school located in San Francisco, CA that specializes in the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic, its various dialects and other Middle-Eastern and North African languages such as Amharic. It was founded in 2000 by Jamal Mavrikios.[""Who We Are"]. "It was named the "Best Place to Learn a Language" by the SF Weekly in 2006.