Arab world Quote by Martin Amis

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

“An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire…

— The Economist

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the…

— Jim Al-Khalili

I studied Arabic and speak some Spanish.

— Margaret Brennan

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

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously…

— Hassan Blasim

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

— Tariq Ramadan

“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

“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic…

— Jim Al-Khalili

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs,…

— Philip Khuri Hitti

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

— Craig Thompson

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

— Marissa Mayer