The thrill of the Arab reading challenge continues as the television program, broadcast on Friday weekly on MBC, approaches its final stages, after the sixth episode saw the rise of seven heroes to continue competing for the title in the seventh episode, which is the station before The last in the journey to reach the title, after the departure of two heroes: Palestinian Omar Maaytah and Omani Sumaya bint Sami al-Mafrajieh.

Competitions continue in the seventh between the seven competitors, namely: Kuwaiti Abdulaziz Al-Khaldi, Algerian Naima Kabir, Tunisian Aya Noureddine, Saudi Jumana Saeed al-Maliki, Morocco's Fatima Zahra Akhyar, and the UAE Mezna Najib, and Sudan Hadeel Anwar Zubair, to exclude two of them in the penultimate episode In preparation for the arrival of five heroes to the final qualifying station in the eighth and final episode, broadcast live from the Opera House in Dubai.

The sixth episode broadcast yesterday, witnessed a fierce competition among the nine heroes, who managed to reach this stage of the qualifiers after their success in the challenges witnessed in the previous five episodes, and in the sixth episode was organized two challenges between the contestants to measure their level of knowledge and cultural, and their ability to Express their ideas in classical Arabic.

Incentive visits

The sixth episode witnessed the visit of nine-year-old Moroccan student Mariam Amjoun, who was crowned the champion of the Arab Reading Challenge in its third session in 2018, to challenge the heroes in the «Arab Reading Challenge», in order to encourage and inspire them, and shared the heroine of the previous version her experience and the impact of the title challenge The Arabic novelist in her life, and how she continued on the journey of reading and increased her passion for knowledge after receiving the title, also visited the Palestinian novelist Hazama Habayeb heroes of the challenge to share their experience with writing, and then presented them with a workshop under the title «How to write a painting».

Thrill continues

“The Arab Reading Challenge program is now in its final stages after broadcasting episodes to millions of Arab viewers around the world over the past weeks in introducing the importance of culture and knowledge, and devoting the concept of reading and challenge to the new generation. And, after providing examples to follow the heroes who are passionate about reading and knowledge and educated in their classical Arabic ».

She added: `` Today's episode presented inspirational models and stories of students who have been associated with their Arabic language and proved their love for them, such as the challenge that included the story of Fatima Ghulam, the martyr of reading, and the visit of student Mariam Amjoun.The aim is to remind the heroes of the ultimate goal of challenging the Arabic reading and encourage them to closely connect with the language. ''

Real gain

As he left the program, Palestinian student Omar Maaytah said: “I feel proud that the Arab Reading Challenge has given me the opportunity to demonstrate my skills in discussion and analysis and my deep understanding of the information I read. The challenge is a strong initiative that deserves recognition and interest and I hope to see more care for my generation to participate in such initiatives, and I wish success to the ongoing champions in the qualifying program. ”

He continued: «The real gain that I got during my participation is that I saw a passion to devote the habit of reading among young people and the upgrading of Arabic as the language of thought and culture, and to consolidate the values ​​of openness, tolerance and civilization dialogue among the beloved Arab nation».

It is worth mentioning that the Arab Reading Challenge program, which continued during the past period through six weekly episodes, combines competitions and reality TV programs. It was decided to convert the final qualifiers from the fourth edition of the Arab Reading Challenge to a TV program in partnership between the two sides.

The seventh episode will be screened next Friday, followed by the eighth episode of the program, which will be broadcast live from the Dubai Opera House. It also includes the Distinguished School and Supervisor awards in the Arab world.

The Arab TV Reading Challenge program aims to shed light on inspiring Arab youth models that have a passion for reading and building awareness that deserves to be celebrated in their countries and among their generation, and to highlight the success stories and insistence of the Arab Reading Challenge champions in the Arab world who have managed to surpass millions of students. During the diversity and depth of reading, they raised the banner of the championship at home level.

It also aims to motivate the younger generations to communicate with their language through the presentation of models that resemble them, and to provide Arabic as a living language to keep pace with generations and the age, in addition to providing reading and knowledge in a new framework fun and useful at the same time.

Two challenges

The sixth episode witnessed two challenges, the first of which was the visit to Al Safa Library in Dubai and the selection of three books to be included in the library «Arab Reading Challenge», and the second challenge is to write the story of Fatima Ghoulam, the martyr of reading, and tell her story in the style of special contenders, known that Fatima Ghoulam is the Algerian student with The 17-year-old died in a traffic accident in 2017 while traveling about 1,500 kilometers (18 hours by car) to reach Algiers and participate in the national qualifiers for the Arab Reading Challenge.

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