A leadingedge study of Arabic varieties and how they are used written by distinguished scholars in the field ElSaid Badawis seminal Mustawayat alarabiya almuasira fi Misr Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt was first published in Arabic in 1973. Its theory of interrelated language levels that are everchanging along a sociolinguistic continuum inspired a generation of Arabists and Arabiclanguage educators to reexamine Arabic varieties from a wide range of perspectives transforming the way scholars carried out research on language variation lexicography and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Since that time Arabic has witnessed major changes in the way its spoken and written forms are practiced but informed scholarly publications on the current reality of the linguistic landscape have been few and far between.