04 May 2017

Influential Arab businessman and the founder of Dubai-based logistics company Aramex, Fadi Ghandour, objected to a research finding that showed Arab youth, especially those from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), prefer to use English rather than Arabic as their language of choice during their daily lives.

The Arab Youth Survey 2017 was carried out from February 7 to March 7 earlier this year and conducted using 3,500 face-to-face interviews with Arab males and females aged between 18 and 24 years from 16 Arab countries.

The findings showed that 54 percent of all of the Arab youth surveyed use English more than Arabic in their day-to-day lives, with the figure rising to 68 percent among GCC youth.