History of Language Politics and Policy in Egypt

  • In Salama Musa’s famous 1945 book about standardizing EAV is titled
    البلاغه ال
    عصريه واللغه العربيه
    “Modern Rhetoric and the Arabic Language”, Musa says “our language [CA] is
    anomalously uphill and needs extraordinary procedures” (146). He continues saying “there has been rigidity in Arabic since it [CA] detests scientific terms and
    detests any change in its insufficient alphabet” (152). Musa finds a connection
    between loyalty to Arabic and religion for he believes that whoever defends Arabic [CA] hates women‟s freedom, future, brain, and development. He believes that those people are burden on the society (152).
  • Nafossa Zakaria Said in her 1964 book
    تبريخ الدعوه إلى العبميه وأثبرهب في مصر “the History of Calling for Standardizing Al-Amiyyah
    and its Effects in Egypt” explains that the call for standardizing EAV among the literary figures in Egypt has a long history