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Egyptian Govt Urged to Protect Arabic Language
 The National Council of Culture yesterday issued a report demanding the Egyptian official institutions to pay more attention to formally using and studying the Arabic language, especially in the foreign universities and schools in Egypt. The report entitled âArabic Language between Arabization and Globalizationâ has stressed the importance of using Arabic in the educational institutions that use a foreign language as the main dominant study language. The NCC also pointed out in its report the necessity of using Arabic language besides other foreign languages in the official and governmental boards in order to protect the native language and the national identity of the Egyptian people.The problem of the Arabic language being ignored by the fresh university graduates and even some of the intellectual elite in Egypt was also targeted in the new report as a major reason behind losing the unique characteristics of the Egyptian culture. The NCC report comes at a time when the young generation in Egypt tends to adopt foreign or Western living styles in different manners especially in the urban areas, another cultural change that the report urges the Egyptian government to deal with. Posted by: Fred 2006-01-04 |
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