English: A Barometer of Intelligence and Class in the Middle East? ...Egypt

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English: A Barometer of Intelligence and Class in the Middle East?
Photo credit: Shutterstock A while back, I stumbled across a digital illustration on social media which read “English is a language not a way to measure someone’s intelligence.” The meme resonated with me. It spoke to a phenomenon that happens across the Arab world and particularly in Egypt where a native’s level of proficiency in English — or whatever second language they speak — has become a measure of their worth and an indicator of their socio-economic class. Many Egyptians have refined and perfected their English, at times to the detriment of their mother tongue, which they have lost due to a lack of practice, or rather due to the disproportionate weight placed on speaking a foreign lan

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