Mohammed bin Rashid honors the heroes of the sixth largest session in the history of the "Challenge" today

"Reading Challenge"... Dreams of Arab Youth Meet at Dubai Opera

  • The heroes of the "Reading Challenge" during their visit to "Dubai Parks" before the closing ceremony today.

    Photography: Ahmed Ardeti

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Under the patronage and presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the Arab world is witnessing today the closing ceremony of the coronation of the champion of the sixth session of the "Arab Reading Challenge", organized by "Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives". After an exceptional season, the largest in the history of the challenge, which aims to build a generation capable of reading and knowledge, and to enhance the status of the Arabic language as a language of science, literature and knowledge production.

In the presence of 2,000 participants from the "Challenge" stars, dignitaries, intellectuals, educators and parents, led by the distinguished students who reached the finals, at the level of Arab countries and communities, the "Dubai Opera" theater hosts the closing ceremony, which is broadcast live on the social networking pages of "Dubai Opera". Arab Reading Challenge”, at 12 noon UAE time.

"Champion of Communities"

In addition to the announcement of the “Champion of the Challenge” in its sixth session, the ceremony will witness the announcement of the “Champion of Communities” for the category of participants from non-Arab countries and non-Arabic speakers from all over the world, in addition to the announcement of the winners of the titles “Outstanding Supervisor” and “Distinguished School”, according to approved criteria. Most notably, supporting students in their schools and training them to acquire the required skills in reading and expression, presenting the content of what they have seen in distinctive summaries, empowering students with the abilities and skills required to read and summarize books, and actively participating in promoting a culture of reading among students and communities.

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The sixth session of the "Arab Reading Challenge", the largest reading event of its kind in the world in the Arabic language, witnessed the participation of 22.27 million students from 44 countries, which made it to date the largest session of the "Challenge", in terms of the number of participants since its inception.

The qualifiers were characterized by competition and diversity of cultural and cognitive challenges. In addition to the students, 126,061 supervisors helped the students master the abilities of reading and summarizing books, while the sixth session of the "Challenge" recorded the participation of 92,583 schools.

As in the previous session of the “Arab Reading Challenge”, students relied on technology and smart digital solutions, which were adopted in the last session, due to the consequences of the “Covid-19” pandemic, and the transition to the system of study and participation “remotely”, where it provided “ The Challenge” mechanisms for summarizing the books read by the participants via electronic files, and reading materials were provided to students in paper and digital formats in this “challenge” session.

The coronation of the "Champions of Challenge" will come to conclude a new marathon season that witnessed several qualifying stages to choose its stars who succeeded in reading and summarizing the content of 50 books.

The qualifiers were graded to include grades and stages, then schools and educational districts, then directorates or governorates, leading to the selection of “Challenge Champions” at the level of each country, whether in the Arab world, or participating countries from outside, taking advantage of digital solutions in evaluation and arbitration.

The distinguished champions and the distinguished school at the level of each of the participating countries were selected, based on precise, unified criteria that included a comprehensive evaluation of various aspects and data before selecting the winners.

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In its sixth session, the “Arab Reading Challenge” continued to build an inclusive readership network among millions of students from the Arab world and the world.

With its continuous expansion and the doubling of the number of participants, the largest “challenge” of its kind in the Arabic language continues to produce a comprehensive cultural and civilized reading movement, in which Arabic language readers and learners from all over the world from Arab and foreign countries meet, to continue instilling the values ​​of cultural openness and cultural and human communication based on partnership cooperation, hope and positivity, in order to promote the building of knowledge-based societies of the future.

• The closing ceremony will be broadcast on digital platforms and the social networking pages of the "Arab Reading Challenge", at 12 noon.

• 22 million participants.

• 92 thousand schools.

• 126 thousand supervisors.

• 44 countries.

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