In critiquing the Arab world i want to start with language, the Arabic language :
First let me start with some questions & i'll come back and try to answer them:
First let me start with some questions & i'll come back and try to answer them:
- Why did Ataturk decide to switch alphabets when he started modernizing Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century, was there something disadvantageous in the Arabic alphabet?
- Is simplicity of a language a good thing or a bad thing... so is English being a simple or "simpler" language to learn, to write,... a good thing or a bad thing, versus much more difficult languages like Arabic?
- Why do kids in the Arab world spend so much time in language related learning like Arabic syntax, grammar, ...?
- What is a language, is it a means of communication, or more than that?
