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Literacy rate is higher among the youth than adults. Youth literacy rate (ages 15–24) in the Arab region increased from 63.9 to 76.3% from 1990 to 2002. The average rate of GCC States Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) was 94%, followed by the Maghreb at 83.2% and the Mashriq at 73.6%.
Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]
Along with the religion of Islam, the Arabic language, Arabic number system and Arab customs spread throughout the entire Arab caliphate. The caliphs of the Arab dynasty established the first schools inside the empire which taught Arabic language and Islamic studies for all pupils in all areas within the caliphate. The result was (in those ...
Saudi Arabia is a major market for pan-Arab satellite and pay-TV. Saudi investors are behind the major networks MBC , which is based in Dubai, and Emirates based OSN . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Saudi government estimated that in 2000 the average Saudi spent 50% to 100% more time watching television than his or her European or US counterpart. [ 4 ]
The agency was founded on 31 May 1959 by Mehdi Bennouna in Rabat. [2] [3] [4] It was nationalized in 1973.[4]The director is Fouad Arif, and headquartered in Rabat.The agency has official international services in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Tamazight.
Arab Media & Society is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on communication.The editor-in-chief is Hussein Amin (American University in Cairo) and it is published by the Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. [1]
Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [18] During the Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture and learning, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have borrowed words from it.
Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian (Arabic: تونسي, romanized: Tūnsi), is a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. [4] It is known among its 12 million speakers as Tūnsi, ⓘ "Tunisian" [5] or Derja (Arabic: الدارجة; meaning "common or everyday dialect" [6]) to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia.