Khalil Mabrouk - Istanbul

In a fluent language and fluent terms, Palestinian girl Raghad Tapha raced her eight years of life to fulfill her dream of joining the challenge of reading Arabic.

From the age of five, Raghad, from the city of Nablus in Palestine, used to read the story and the novel in an expressive way. She was enthusiastic about her speeches at her school, "The Pioneers of Hope," which won the challenge of the Arab reading in 2016.

Unlike the behavior of children, Raghad does not rejoice in any gift she receives when she is given a short story, a novel for children or a small microphone to help her practice speech, according to her father, Amr Tafaha.

"His son Fuad (in his first school year) is imitating his three-year-old sister for interest in stories, novels and reading, in the case of the father as a" positive jealousy, "says Tufah, who has come to Turkey to complete his doctoral studies in civil engineering at Konya University.

In the view of a number of writers and parents that several factors involved in attracting the attention of the child to the literature and cultural skills associated with his language, part of which relates to the child and its potential, and some of them related to the family and interest, some of them very relevant to the environment.

Poet Amr Tabaha: Parents must enhance the child's confidence in his literary abilities and listen to him with interest (Al Jazeera)

Motivation and example
An apple for Al-Jazeera Net shows that one of the most important factors in the Arab child's love is to encourage his parents in several ways, including the provision of stories and pieces suitable for the ages of children and their abilities.

"The parents should exploit their children's attachment to technology in directing them to deal with Arabic literature in small screens instead of chasing cartoons and games that often do not carry content that is useful in raising a child," said Apple, a poet and owner of the Hidayat Harf Office, which was organized in 2016.

Parents should also enhance the child's confidence in his or her literary abilities, listen to him attentively and give him enough time to strengthen his literary tendencies, explaining that the mother bears the greatest responsibility for this, because she spends more time with the child.

Raghad is one of the Arab children who aspire to "literary glory" in the footsteps of the Moroccan girl Maryam Amjoun, who won the Arab Reading Challenge 2018 a month ago.

In conjunction with World Children's Day, which is celebrated annually on 20 November, the question of how Arab children are encouraged to learn literature is revolved around the third Literary Salon held by the Association of Turkish Literature in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ibrahim Mustafa Jaafar: The Child's Literary Industry is the Best Way to Preserve Arabic Literature (Al Jazeera)

According to Saloon organizers, a large number of Arab poets and writers devoted much of the time to the saloon in their attempt to answer this question.

The writer Ibrahim Mustafa Jafar said that those interested in Arabic literature should embrace different age groups within a meaningful educational framework as groups and individuals, since Arabic is the language of the Holy Quran and the widest and most comprehensive language in terms of vocabulary, eloquence and values.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Jaafar stressed the need to provide a library in every home that suits every age group, from children's stories to literature to science and knowledge, enriching the minds of children and opening up a variety of horizons for flying in wide spaces.

He also pointed out that the child literature industry is the best way to preserve Arab literature on the basis of "science in the age of stone engraving."

The poet drew attention to the need to read the Arabic poetry as "the Diwan of the Arabs and the document through which we learn about their civilization and culture, and if the rule of the rule of the rule and the flags of generosity."