Author: Leen Metwalli

This article is an objective look into the history of this fact and its repercussions today, not a call for senseless pride.

It is commonly known that medical terminology is derived from classical languages, such as Latin and Greek, and cannot be taught in different languages. If you ever wanted to study medicine and are one of the people who speak your native language better than English, then the sentence “Oh no! How are you going to survive Medicine in English?!”, is not strange to you. Some report Arabic as the world’s most difficult language to learn, which was not an obstacle for Syria. A surprise for the world is that Syria is the first and only country to teach medicine in Arabic since 1919 and to this day! Countries like Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Tunis, Libya, and Lebanon have taught Medicine in Arabic for a period of time but switched to English/French due to colonization.

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