The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic…

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

— Stewart Copeland

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

— Stewart Copeland

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.

— Marcel Wanders

I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to…

— Lil Tracy

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.

— Yasmine Hamdan

World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no…

— Yasmine Hamdan

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

“By the affirmation of all scholars, Arabic is the most honourable language among all Semitic ones.”

— Clemens Joseph David

“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly as old,…

— James John Courtenay

“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.”

— James John Courtenay

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on…

— Philip Jenkins