The cultural movement is a real boon to all Arabs. These events, which focus on building and educating people, confirm the UAE's long-standing and sustained investment in building minds before investing in building buildings and towers.
A few days ago, Dubai witnessed the "Arab Reading Challenge" finals, a qualitative cultural competition aimed at developing the national and Arab sense, spreading the values of tolerance and moderation, and creating a generation of distinguished Arab innovators by urging them to compete in reading. The event was attended by more than 10 million Arab students from all Arab and non-Arab countries, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum was honored to be the winner of this annual celebration. The start of the "challenge".
A few days later, in the capital city of Sharjah, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qassimi inaugurated the 37 th edition of the Sharjah International Exhibition, which is witnessing a great development in the number of visitors and participants in an impressive, proud and optimistic manner.
The exhibition this year is witnessing the most crowded and unparalleled, and how beautiful it is to see this keenness and desire of the visitors of the exhibition, more than a million visitors, mostly young people, students and children, packed with exhibition halls in a sense, At the time we thought that the next generation does not believe in reading and does not like it!
More than 1874 publishers from 77 Arab and foreign countries participated in the Book Fair, displaying more than 1.6 million titles, in addition to holding more than 1800 events, in which cultural, artistic and media personalities from around the world will participate for 11 days. One of the world's largest and most important book fairs, and its growing growth makes it the largest and largest book fair in the world in less than three years. This is the aspiration of the show's organizers and their next goal.
This is what makes the UAE possess a strong asset of soft power, a cultural force this time, which makes young people and intellectuals related to it, while building the minds of future generations with science, knowledge, reading and reading. This is the most important and noblest and most beautiful reasons why our leaders, Are making an effort to develop and develop these cultural ideas generously.
** After the Challenge of Reading, I received a phone call from a dear person, in which he wrote: "Nearly three million dollars is the total of the Arab Reading Challenge this year, with 10 and a half million students competing for it from inside and outside the Arab world. Do you see what these three million players make up of a football player who may not come to his club with a local championship? We really need a hospital for the minds! "
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