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[19] [20] The main reasons given are that Arabic would open up more job opportunities for Pakistanis in the Middle East and lead to lower unemployment and increased remittances [18] and that Arabic is the language of the Quran, so making Arabic compulsory in school will help improve the understanding of it.
As of October 2023, Iran has banned the teaching of foreign languages, including Arabic, in all primary and kindergarten schools. The ban is intended to help preserve Iranian identity in children at a young age. [13] The Arabic taught in schools is Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, which is used in Islamic liturgy.
The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western European nations in the early 20th century as a replacement of the term Near East (both were in ...
By some definitions, [32] [39] Arab citizens of Israel may concurrently be considered a constituent part of the Arab world. Iran has about 1.5 million Arabic speakers. [40] Iranian Arabs are mainly found in Ahvaz, a southwestern region in the Khuzestan Province; others inhabit the Bushehr and Hormozgan provinces and the city of Qom.
Elton Daniel in The History of Iran (Greenwood Press, 2001), states that the Arabs of Iran "are concentrated in the province of Khuzistan and number about half a million". [29] The Historical Dictionary of Iran puts the number at 1 million. [30] Iranian Arabs form 1–2% of Iran's population. [5]
The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by ... Iran: 89,351,259: 18.51: 1.30: ... Demographics of the Middle East; List of Arab League ...
Peninsular Arabic are the varieties of Arabic spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Southern Iran, Southern Iraq and Jordan. [2] The modern dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula are closer to Classical Arabic than elsewhere in the Arab ...
With a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, [8] and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, [9] the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th most populous metropolitan area in the world.