Why Arabic

The best way ever known to discover a country or a culture, know their traditions, understand their values, thinking, and learn their language is to live in it and mix with the people. Traveling for a few days or weeks is not enough to say ”I know this country”.

The Arabic language is one of the most important language nowadays and will take a great place in the near future. The Arabic language is the fourth largest in the world in terms of number of native speakers (after Chinese, Spanish and English). It is the official language of twenty three (23) countries : Algeria , Bahrain , Chad , Comoros Islands , Egypt , Iraq , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Libya , Morocco , Mauritania , Oman , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Somalia , Sudan , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen and Djibouti .

Arabic is the language of Islam and it is widely understood by over one billion Muslims (more than one thousand millions), from Morocco to Bangladesh , Malaysia and Indonesia and from Turkey to Yemen , and all the Arabs and Muslims emigrated to western countries. The Arab speakers count for 200 millions in the world.

It is not only the language of the religion of millions of Muslims in the world but Arabic is experiencing a great development and strengthening his own position in the culture, the economy, the politics and specially in the Medias. The number of Arabic channels is continuously increasing.

Channels as Al Jazeera are having a great success as satellite news channels. Other Arabic channels are becoming popular (Abu Dhabi, Al Andalous, Space Toons for children), without talking of the many Islamic satellite channels for the Muslims in the world (Iqra, Al Majd, Ash Shariqa, Al Risala, Al Fajr).

The international events in the world since 2001, the Palestine situation, the war against Iraq and the future perspectives have put the Arabic and Muslim in the front page of actuality and the center of the international scenes , what makes it is attracting a great number of people to know more about these countries, this culture, their history, learn their language for personal or professional purposes.

We hope to create better understanding between people from different cultures, more respect , more tolerance , more opened minds . The students of today will be the teachers of tomorrow. We want people to know us, to understand us in order to be our representative abroad, our ambassadors.

In another hand, knowledge of Arabic is truly a requirement to get around in Syria , in everyday life and through the Arabic culture, traditions and mentality, which you cant reach with an intermediate language.