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It depends on what you plan to do with it.
Obviously, if you plan to work in a certain Arab country, knowing that dialect will be most useful. For example, you may be going to Iraq for military purposes, so it would be good to know Iraqi Arabic, etc.
If you want to be able to watch television and movies, Egyptian is probably the best dialect to learn since most Arabic language television (except for news stations) is made in Egypt. However, the drawback to learning Egyptian is that it is rather different from other dialects, resulting in Non-Egyptians understanding you (because of these TV shows), but you not understanding Non-Egyptians.
If you want to learn other dialects more easily, Levantine dialects (Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian) are probably the most useful since they are more linguistically similar to other dialects.
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