Differences Quote by Nawal El Saadawi

I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is…

— Edward Said

“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

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

— Craig Thompson

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

— Martin Amis

“In its ruggedness Hebrew seems an older language than Arabic, but some Arabic forms are certainly older than the corresponding Hebrew.”

— James John Courtenay

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

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

— Marissa Mayer

“... 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

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

— Ibn Khaldun

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

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

— Larry Elder

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim