There are many places on the margins of the Arabic world where people lack an active command of MSA (as opposed to a merely passive understanding), and where ne

There are many places on the margins of the Arabic world where people lack an active command of MSA (as opposed to a merely passive understanding), and where newspapers may well be in French instead of MSA. After all, an active command is learned through formal schooling, and regrettably there are places in the Arabic world where children do not get much formal schooling.