Correcting Quote by Edward Said

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

— Craig Thompson

I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.

— Stephan El Shaarawy

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

— Laura Poitras

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

— John Abizaid

One of my very close friends asked me -: Hey! Did you learn Arabic? And I replied . . . . . . . *ILLA*

— Irfan Khan

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and…

— Said Musa

“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

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

— Tariq Ramadan

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

— John Updike

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

— John Abizaid

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

— Mena Massoud