The second episode of the TV program "The Arab Reading Challenge" witnessed a pleasant surprise from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai for the 16 finalists of the Challenge, each of whom presented a copy signed by HH My book, which is the latest version of His Highness' books, monitors his journey in the service of the nation spanning 50 years. The book presents historical milestones and luminous and influential events in the march of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates. .

"I dedicate these stories in the hope that you will find something that will add to the future of your beautiful homeland," he wrote in his dedication to each copy of the book, directed on behalf of each of the 16 Challenge Champions crowned in 14 Arab countries.

This surprise brought joy and joy to the hearts of the contestants who expressed their gratitude for this kind gesture from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

The first-of-its-kind Arabic educational teaser challenge will be aired on MBC1 every Friday at 9pm UAE time (8pm Mecca time), combining competitions and reality TV shows.

The program is the result of a collaboration between the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, which includes the Arab Reading Challenge Initiative and MBC channels. It was decided to convert the final qualifiers from the fourth edition of the Arab Reading Challenge to a television program. Competitions over the course of 5 other recorded episodes are broadcast weekly, and up to the eighth episode of the program, which will be broadcast live and includes the coronation of the Arab Reading Challenge Champion 2019.

In the second episode of the TV program Arab Reading Challenge yesterday, the competition among the 16 heroes intensified, with the challenges among the heroes, as winning these challenges is the only way to ensure the transition to the next stages of the qualifiers, as well as to ensure appearances on television screens Subsequent of the program.

The episode saw the division of 16 champions into two teams by 8 in each team. Naima Kabir, the Lebanese Lubna Hamida Jamal Nasser.

The second team included Emirati Meznah Najib, Tunisian Aya Noureddine, Sudan's Hadeel Anwar Al-Zubair, Saudi Arabia Jumana Saeed Al-Maliki, Moroccan Fatima Al-Zahra Akhyar, Egyptian Ranim Samir Hamouda, Palestinian Omar Maaytah and Bahraini Bushra Abdul Majeed Asiri.

Millions of Arab viewers around the world enjoyed the second episode of the program, which witnessed two cultural and cognitive challenges among the contestants. The first challenge included the selection of one of the books that were read, and then the selection of a person to be presented by the contestant. One before the program jury, which includes the Bahraini media and poet Dr. Berwen Habib, the Tunisian writer Dr. Laila Al-Obeidi, and the Syrian artist and director Jamal Suleiman.

The committee adopts an accurate scientific mechanism to evaluate the competing heroes of the challenge. This mechanism is based on accurate educational and cognitive tools and standards, in addition to the personality assessment, in order to stand on the level of knowledge through their readings and creativity, and enjoy the speed of intuition and integrity of the language, and a spirit of teamwork, and their ability to Develop critical and analytical thought and possess creative expressionist tools in diverse situations.

In the first challenge, the choices of heroes competing in their choices for books varied between Arabic and international literature, novel and management books and self-development and others.

The second challenge, which included the events of the second episode of the program, was the selection of an important book and summarized in 280 characters to be attractive to readers of social media, and in this challenge varied choices of heroes competing between inspiring, motivational, scientific and informational books and others.
These challenges provided an opportunity for the jury to measure the abilities of the eight champions in the first team, and their knowledge and cultural knowledge, as well as their ability to present their ideas and opinions in an attractive Arabic language.

After exciting competitions in the second episode of the program, four of the eight team members entered the circle of danger, which threatens to continue in the qualifiers and the program unless they can quickly get out of this circle by winning challenges with their competitors in subsequent episodes, and the four heroes who entered the stage of danger They are Mauritanian Umm Al-Nasr Mamin, Saudi Fahad Shuja Al-Habout, Egyptian Shaima Ali Bassiouni, and Omani Sumaya bint Sami al-Mafrajieh. Eight who managed to weave ties of friendship between them despite solid unity competitions.

The events of the second episode were not limited to competitions and challenges, as they included scenes from the visit of the 16 Arab Reading Challenge heroes to the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, one of the most important cultural landmarks in the UAE. At the Louvre Abu Dhabi, they also heard an explanation of the history and story of many of the museum's collections, paintings and valuable art objects.

The second episode of the TV program included the Arab Reading Challenge, a meeting between the journalist Zeina Yazji and the 16 Challenge Champions at the Arab Reading Challenge, which is hosting the final competitions. Yazji spoke with the contestants about traditional media and social media and how to deal with them. The students are rich and inspiring to the importance of each individual issue and constructive opinion, to be based on the knowledge and knowledge and rationality and logic so that the owner of the opinion able to adopt and display and defend it as necessary.

For her part, the media Zeina Yazji expressed her happiness to visit the Arab Reading Challenge and meet her with the 16th champions of the tournament in 14 Arab countries, stressing that these heroes with their culture, knowledge and passionate and ambitious and capable of innovation confirm that the Arab region awaits the future Better on the condition that young people find and nurture them and put them on the right path towards a better future.This is done by many initiatives that translate the vision and thought of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum such as the Arab Reading Challenge, Makers of Hope and many others.

She said that the Arab TV Reading Challenge program, in its competitive teaser format, which is followed by millions of Arab viewers around the world, is able to re-establish culture, science and knowledge as a priority in the lives of the inhabitants of our Arab region, as the crossing point to a better future, noting that reading frees man from space and time, It nourishes his mind with new ideas, and charges his heart and soul with diverse and creative feelings and sensations, which would make a fundamental difference in the lives of all those who always desire this benign habit.

Shahad Blanc's Arabic Reading Challenge program continues to be shown weekly in recorded episodes, featuring multiple challenges and competitions leading up to the selection of 5 contestants by the jury for the final elimination, which will be part of the closing ceremony and the eighth and final episode of the Arab Reading Challenge broadcast live, which will witness The winner of the fourth edition of the competition, to win the grand prize of AED 0.5 million within the total value of the challenge prizes of AED 11 million and also includes the outstanding schools and supervisor awards in the Arab world.

It is noteworthy that the Arab TV Reading Challenge program aims to shed light on inspiring Arab youth models that have a passion for reading and building knowledge awareness worthy of celebration in their countries and among their generation, and highlight the success stories and insistence in the Arab Reading Challenge champions at the level of the Arab world who managed to surpass millions Students, through the diversity and depth of reading, raising the banner of the championship at the level of their homeland .. It also aims to stimulate the younger generations to communicate with their language through the presentation of similar models, and provide Arabic as a living language to keep pace with generations and the age, in addition to providing reading and knowledge T new fun and useful at the same time.