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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Mohammed bin Rashid reviews participation figures in 8th Arab Reading Challenge

Emirates 24/7 01 May 2024
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, reviewed participation figures in the 8th Arab Reading Challenge 2024, which saw record participation with over 28 million students ... Year after year, the Arab Reading Challenge continues to attract larger numbers of students....
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Sheikh Mohammed reviews participation figures in 8th Arab Reading Challenge

Gulf Today 01 May 2024
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, reviewed participation figures in the 8th Arab Reading Challenge 2024, which saw record participation with over 28 million students ... Year after year, the Arab Reading Challenge continues to attract larger numbers of students....
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UAE: 28.2 million students from 50 countries vie for title at Arab Reading Challenge

Khaleejtimes 01 May 2024
The 8th Arab Reading Challenge 2024 has witnessed record participation with over 28 million students, in what is a 13.7 per cent increase compared to last year figures ... Year after year, the Arab Reading Challenge has attracted increasing number of students ... 4 students to trek to ......
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Glory to Our Martyrs? Really?!

Hot Air 01 May 2024
I started noting this a few days ago, as videos of Muslim prayers and chants in Arabic began circulating, as well as of "instructors" teaching Hamas slogans to students on campus ... It is bizarre to see faculty and students holding hands while listening to chants in Arabic ... Students then wail the Arab ululate sound....
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28 million students, 229,000 schools participate in 8th Arab Reading Challenge

Gulf News 01 May 2024
... from 28 million students from across 229,000 schools in 50 countries. “Today, I reviewed the statistics of the eighth edition of the Arab Reading Challenge, the world’s largest initiative to promote reading among students....
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Gaza children thank US university students for support amid Israeli onslaught

Anadolu Agency 01 May 2024
"Arab and European university students should emulate these students to end the war completely in Gaza,” he added. A Palestinian woman, who preferred to remain unnamed, urged Arab university students "to stand with the Palestinian people amid the Israeli war on the enclave.". "The students in American universities empathize with our suffering....
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Sultan inaugurates 15th edition of Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival

Gulf Today 01 May 2024
During his tour of SCRF,  Sheikh Sultan witnessed a selection of the 186 Arab and foreign publishers from 20 countries, which will host more than 1,500 cultural, artistic, and edutainment activities led by 265 guests from 25 countries, including prominent writers, artists, publishers, and illustrators....
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Juan González, Veteran of '68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders' Silence on Gaza Slaughter

Democracy Now 01 May 2024
He adds that the more diverse makeup of the protests today — led primarily by Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students — may have made school officials and police “much more willing to crack down” than when it was a mostly white protest movement ... Student Protests ... NEXTUSC Grad Student Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Univ....
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Palestinian students persist amid Israel’s 'education genocide' in Gaza

Anadolu Agency 01 May 2024
The tent, established by the Ruwwad al-Amal (Pioneers of Hope) Education and Training Center, collaborated with teachers to bring joy to students who have been unable to attend school for over 200 days ... Arabic teacher Asil Mahmud stressed a significant gap in student learning due to their absence from classes for about seven months....
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The Columbia Protesters Backed Themselves Into a Corner

The Atlantic 01 May 2024
He and two friends were not fans of this protest, he told me, but they also understood the swirl of passions that led so many Arab and Muslim students to recoil at the terrible toll that Israeli bombings have inflicted on Gaza ... campus with Arab and Muslim students was a privilege....
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Ohio State locks buildings in anticipation of Wednesday's Israel-Hamas war protests

The Columbus Dispatch 01 May 2024
Ohio State students protests against Israel. Ohio State University became the latest site of student protests against Israel as hundreds of students, faculty and members of the Ohio Arab community rallied outside the student union ... Last Tuesday, two Ohio State students were arrested during a peaceful on-campus protest....
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Stanford forwards encampment photo with Hamas headband to FBI

Stanford Daily 01 May 2024
Pro-Palestine students established an encampment in White Plaza over Stanford’s Admit Weekend, as protests and arrests escalate on college campuses nationwide ... “Stanford is actively discriminating against Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and anti-Zionist Jewish students using their internal disciplinary process,” they wrote on social media....
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Watch: Prizes, shows mark opening of Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2024

Gulf News 01 May 2024
Throughout the festival, the Poetry Knight competition will encourage children and young adults to recite Arabic poetry ... Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Sharjah Animation Festival return on May 1 28 million students, 229,000 schools participate in 8th Arab Reading Challenge Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival....
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