I'm half Arabic, but I am one hundred percent American. What is going on affects me the same as everyone else. — Shannon Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“By the affirmation of all scholars, Arabic is the most honourable language among all Semitic ones.” — Clemens Joseph David Copy Share Image
I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is… — Kenji Goto Copy Share Image
“In its ruggedness Hebrew seems an older language than Arabic, but some Arabic forms are certainly older than the corresponding Hebrew.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
“His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah). — Umar Copy Share Image
I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself. — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer” — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
You're Drinking Too Much Coffee When You speak perfect Arabic without ever taking a lesson. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
