Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
There are excellent Arab writers, but more books are released her a year than in in a thousand years of the Arab world. And that's just the Netherlands. Makes you think, here at least. There is no reason to teach Arabian. What dialect of Arabian would it be anyway, there are many.
can you backup that claim? i know you live in the netherlands and all, but every year in the UAE we publish thousands of books in arabic too, which according to you means the dutch are in their intellectual backwater years since i certainly don't see a single book from the netherlands in my library. Oh and its not religious books.