ARABIC AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE

This international Arabic may not have its place in the computer for a while, but it should eventually compete with the other languages. Then, and only then, can we be certain that teaching literature (especially classical Arabic literature) will not disturb the thinking processes of scientifically raised Arabs. Time, isn't it, to free our language from the quality of being only a poetical language! By the way, I have done Ash­ Shibly's poem into English and appended it to the script of this address (together with the original Arabic).