Possible Clues:

• Script arriving -- it's simple for one to apprehend
• Major language of Middle East
• Like 1-2-3, vis-a-vis I-II-III
• Common language of Middle East
• A writer entertaining artist from the Gulf?
• 1, 2, 3, vis-a-vis I, II, III
• Language that gives us 'hashish'
• One has a crab around, in a manner of speaking
• Egyptian's tongue
• Source of 'coffee' and 'cotton'