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Bassiouney talks about the politicizing of language that took place in Egypt before and after the January 25th revolution. It is no exaggeration to say that discussion of language always feeds into politics through identity construction. Egypt, like all Arab countries, is a diglossic community, a community in which two language codes exist, each with a different function: Standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. The linguistic situation in Egypt has been highlighted by non-linguists who sense the significance of language in forging an identity or denying one. Politics and language have never been more intertwined than at the time of the Egyptian revolution. Adapted from the source document.