Criticism of Joseph and Zulaikha in Arabic by Ahmed Zidan

After Islamic revolution in Iran, beside math, biology, physics, chemistry and etc., a new subject introduced to the middle and high school programs. That was and still is obligatory and all the children should learn it: The Arabic course!
This course is almost the worst thing that students experience in their school life, mostly if you don’t want to go after humanity sciences. If you also want to be a physician, biotechnologist, computer engineer or any other thing, you should learn and pass those all Arabic courses. And because there is no usage of Arabic in the society, everyone hates the courses. That’s a really big problem in Iranian schools!

I myself was not so good at Arabic in school and like other guys always thought what the benefit of learning Arabic is. That is a big question that always stuck in students’ brains. The system justifies that “it’s the Quranic language and we as Muslims should know it”, and sometimes they exaggerate its importance as the most important international language. But it’s always the case: students don’t like it.

I, myself as an Iranian student learnt Arabic and passed it in school and also university (it is also obligatory at universities). I always tried to translate stories, hadith or quranic verses into Persian in my exams, and I was not so bad at it. But the interesting thing that I always never thought about was that if someday my words be translated into Arabic!!!

I should thank Ahmed Zidan, my sweet friend and editor-in-chief of MidEastYouth Arabic, who spent his valuable time to translate one of my articles that has been published on MEY in English. When I was at school, really never thought one day my words be translated to Arabic and I’m thankful to Ahmed for letting me have this awesome experience; Thanks you Ahmed.

The article is an criticism on story of Joseph and Zulaikh!

The English article: part one and two.
And thanks to Ahmed, the Arabic version of article is now available.