His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced through his social media accounts that Dubai celebrates 13.5 million Arab students in the Arab Reading Challenge. Arab Reading Challenge) .. 13.5 million pioneers of knowledge and thought .. We are strong young Arab reader believes in the power of crafts and writers ».
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the Arab world will celebrate, on Wednesday, the crowning of the champion of the fourth edition of the Arab Reading Challenge, during a huge ceremony hosted by Dubai Opera, and attended by more than 3000 people Officials and delegates from all over the world, to be announced winners of the title of the Arab Reading Challenge Champion 2019, and the outstanding school and supervisor, after a long and busy season of competitions and challenges participated by 13.5 million students, supervised by 99 thousand teachers, In 67 thousand schools, from 49 countries from home a For an Arab and outside.
Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Secretary General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, said that the Arab Reading Challenge “established in its fourth season its position as a qualitative initiative that raised the awareness of young people, creating a knowledge movement that is the largest at the level of educational and community institutions in the Arab world.”
He added: “The Arab Reading Challenge is the embodiment of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's vision of preparing an educated generation that can improve reality through knowledge and contribute to the sustainable development of his society. Maktoum Global, which has benefited more than 41 million people worldwide in 2018, has spread education and knowledge. ''
Al-Gergawi concluded that «the Arab reading challenge is the bet of Mohammed bin Rashid on the Arab youth carrying the banner of knowledge and the word».
An appointment with millions of viewers
The semi-finals, which took place among the 16 crowned champions in their home countries, resulted in five heroes qualified to compete for the title in the eighth and final round of the trip to crown the title of the Arab Reading Challenge 2019. Millions of Arab viewers around the world will be on Wednesday, With a live broadcast on the MBC screen of the finalists among the five heroes, and up to the crowning of the Arab Reading Challenge champion with a prize of up to half a million dirhams.
The seventh episode saw a single challenge among the seven champions who had managed to reach this stage of the qualifiers, and this challenge included a test without prior preparation between these competitors, the goal of persuading the jury within a minute to be eligible to pass to the next stage of the final qualifiers. During this challenge, the heroes were distinguished by their determination to offer their best cultural, cognitive and rhetorical talents.
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«We celebrate more than 13 million Arab students in the (Reading Challenge) .. The largest Arab knowledge project .. We are strong Arab youth believe in the power of crafts and writers .. Arab youth begin his life and his future with the word read».
Artist Bouchnak: Language Identity
The seventh episode witnessed the visit of Tunisian artist Lotfi Bouchnak, one of the pioneers of the Arabic song, to the House of the Arab Reading Challenge, and to meet with heroes of the challenge, and talk with them about the importance of mastering the Arabic language and its development and use in all aspects of life, as an addition It is important for everyone who speaks it and has shared a number of personal experiences. Bouchnak stressed in his interview with the heroes of the Arab Reading Challenge that «language is the title of existence and identity, as the repository in which the elements of belonging, and memory of the future is stored».
5 participants qualified for the final round
At the start of the seventh episode before the final closing ceremony, next week, the students agreed that “reading is our summit, the way we find ourselves”, and at the end of the ceremony they said goodbye to two of their colleagues after the seven participants passed by the jury.
The episode was enthusiastic for the public and crucial for the seven heroes, and began with a video about the Palestinian child, Ayed al-Jundi, who insisted on attending the closing ceremony of the challenge last year, despite his delicate health situation. The trainer and self-development expert, Laila Tariq Al-Mina, presented his story to the seven participants, and invited them to try to be role models for others, as was the return of this role model. The students then met with Safia al-Shehhi and Hanada Taha Tamir, who gave them some advice and guidance and increased their determination to win. Without being asked to accomplish any challenge, the presenter of the program, Shahad Blanc, declared that the time had come to an end and it was time for them to pass to the jury without any preparation or preparation for an unknown and sudden challenge.
Shahad revealed to the participants about the content of the new challenge, which is to stand before the Committee and convince it within one minute, why they deserve to qualify to the final round of «Arab Reading Challenge». After passing in front of the committee, five students in the final round qualified: Hadeel Anwar from Sudan, Jumana Al-Maliki from Saudi Arabia, Fatima Zahra Akhyar from Morocco, Aya Boutareea from Tunisia, and Abdul Aziz Al-Khaldi from Kuwait.