Literate Listening: Broadcast News and Ideologies of Reasoning

One of my Fassi interlocutors shared a screen shot of this Facebook comment from a chat he was having with an online contact—someone who had friended him but who he did not know personally. كم نسبة الأمية بالمغرب؟؟؟ إن لم أقل الواعي (kam nisba al’umīa bilmaghrib??? in lam aqul alwā‛ī, “What is the illiteracy rate in Morocco??? If I don’t include the aware.”) Emerging in a discussion about Morocco’s educational woes and written in fuṣḥā (“literary Arabic”), it reflected a literacy ideology I encountered regularly in Fez: con temporary discussions did not include all salient ways of knowing or