Arabic

Arabic (/ˈærəbɪk/;Arabic: العَرَبِية, al-ʻarabiyyah [alʕaraˈbijja] or Arabic: عربي ,عربى ʻarabī [ˈʕarabiː]) is the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century and its modern descendants excluding Maltese. Arabic is spoken in a wide arc stretching across Western Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. Arabic belongs to the Afroasiatic family.

The literary language, called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, is the only official form of Arabic. It is used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts.

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, closely related to Aramaic, Hebrew, Ugaritic and Phoenician. Standard Arabic is distinct from and more conservative than all of the spoken varieties, and the two exist in a state known as diglossia, used side-by-side for different societal functions.

Some of the spoken varieties are mutually unintelligible, both written and orally, and the varieties as a whole constitute a sociolinguistic language. This means that on purely linguistic grounds they would likely be considered to constitute more than one language, but are commonly grouped together as a single language for political or religious reasons (see below). If considered multiple languages, it is unclear how many languages there would be, as the spoken varieties form a dialect chain with no clear boundaries. If Arabic is considered a single language, it is perhaps spoken by as many as 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world, making it one of the six most-spoken languages in the world. If considered separate languages, the most-spoken variety would most likely be Egyptian Arabic with 89 million native speakers—still greater than any other Afroasiatic language. Arabic also is a liturgical language of 1.6 billion Muslims. It is one of six official languages of the United Nations.

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DC high school violated Arab students’ constitutional rights, ACLU says in lawsuit

Wtop 25 Apr 2024
and the principal of Jackson-Reed High School, saying the school has suppressed the rights of members of its Arab Student Union. The Arab Student Union is a recognized student club at the public high school that, for the past four months, has been trying to engage in expressive activities at the school, the ACLU said....
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Where is the voice of the Arab student movements?

Middle East Monitor 25 Apr 2024
... global student movement similar to the one the world witnessed in the 1960s and 1970s, which led to stopping the wars in Algeria and Vietnam....
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FSU police, sprinklers put damper on Pro-Palestinian student protest, occupy Landis plans

Tallahassee Democrat 25 Apr 2024
Students at the University of Florida also stood ground on an eight-hour occupation of the university’s Plaza of the Americas Wednesday ... During the protest, student speakers also expressed how FSU has not acknowledged Arab-American Heritage Month this April or shared any statement to show support to Arab and Muslim students of the university....
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Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US

The Day 25 Apr 2024
And Itedal Shalabi, who runs an Arab American family services center in the Chicago area and is also Palestinian, said misinformation and hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccines were rampant in her community ... For example, Stiffler said, Arab children are the majority of K-12 students in Dearborn, Michigan, but state data identifies them as white....
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Sharjah Ruler establishes Al Dhaid University

Emirates 24/7 25 Apr 2024
"We are pleased to announce the establishment of the University of Dhaid, a non-profit scientific institution in the Arab region specialising in agriculture, environment, food, and livestock ... An Arab non-profit academic institute is required to be established in the Emirate of Sharjah as per the decree....
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Sharjah Ruler Sheikh Sultan establishes Al Dhaid University

Gulf Today 25 Apr 2024
"We are pleased to announce the establishment of the University of Dhaid, a non-profit scientific institution in the Arab region specialising in agriculture, environment, food, and livestock ... An Arab non-profit academic institute is required to be established in the Emirate of Sharjah as per the decree....
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Teacher leads effort for more understandable driver's tests

San Francisco Chronicle 25 Apr 2024
It's a passion; it's something I love to do," she said of teaching English to about 38 students a year whose native languages include Arabic, Oromo, Ukrainian and Spanish ... The origins of the bill date to 2019 when Kiran, who has three master's degrees, saw a well-prepared student repeatedly fail the written test....
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MSU students set up encampment to pressure university to divest from Israel

Detroit news 25 Apr 2024
The students said they were negotiating with campus police, who informed them that the encampment violated university policies ... "I am willing to continue my fight and advocacy and I am hoping the university chooses to honor Spartan values rather than silence us," said Saba Saed, an MSU student with the MSU Arab Culture Society....
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Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after mass arrest at UT Austin pro-Palestine protest

The Hill 25 Apr 2024
The students had called on UT to divest from arms manufacturers and U.S ... Earlier this month, three men assaulted a Muslim student wearing traditional dress while mocking him in "fake Arabic," according to a complaint filed by the Council of American-Islamic Relations....
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Peter Obi: Labour Party Crisis is Child Play When Compared to Situations in PDP, APC

This Day 25 Apr 2024
Nigeria .. Chuks Okocha in Abuja ... “I am not campaigning. I am not desperate to be president of Nigeria ... I also spent time immersing myself in Quranic learning alongside. Witnessing their enthusiasm for Quranic education reaffirmed my belief in the untapped potential within these young students, proficient in Arabic reading and writing.”. ....
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Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding organizes cultural events in Hungary

The Peninsula 24 Apr 2024
Zoltan discussed the translation movement in Hungary, noting that the Arabic language department at the university annually receives around 15 undergraduate students and ... Additionally, the delegation visited the MT Academy, which focuses on teaching Arabic to Hungarian students....
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Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

Vox 24 Apr 2024
The next few decades saw the formation of different pro-Palestinian groups, including the Organization of Arab Students, the Association of Arab American University Graduates (created by the late Palestinian American scholar Edward Said), and the General Union of Palestinian Students....
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Columbia students inspire worldwide pro-Palestinian protests

The New Arab 24 Apr 2024
"Up until the arrests on Thursday, this level of student engagement hadn't been seen since 1968," Mohammad Hemeida, a third-year politics and history student at Columbia, told The New Arab, as background noise from the encampment could be heard over the phone ... "I think when she was first instated, a lot of Arab students were excited....

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