Promoters of Arabic language honoured
MOHAMMAD CONGRATULATES MBR ARABIC LANGUAGE AWARD WINNERS
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday attended the opening session of the Fourth International Conference on Arabic Language, which was inaugurated at the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai, bringing together more than 2,000 Arabic language researchers, specialists, and experts.
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, also attended the opening of the conference, which will run until May 10.
During the event, Shaikh Mohammad awarded the winners of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award in recognition of their valuable services towards the Arabic language.
Dr Farouk Shousha, Secretary General of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Award for the Arabic Language, in his impromptu speech hailed Shaikh Mohammad’s initiatives and his keenness on enhancing and respecting the Arabic language.
He also spoke about the importance of Shaikh Mohammad’s new initiative regarding the “Mohammad Bin Rashid Dictionary for the contemporary Arabic language”.
Shousha also pointed out that Shaikh Mohammad’s dictionary will be updated annually in line with new developments and requirements and enhance the status of the language as a beautiful and live language, stressing that through issuing this dictionary the relationship between the Arabic mother tongue and colloquial dialects in the Arab countries will be corrected.
New dictionary
He added that Shaikh Mohammad’s dictionary comes 60 years after the last two dictionaries and its importance in keeping up with the developments taking place in the language comes from here, especially in the “information technology” sector.
Shaikh Mohammad took the main stage and awarded the winners wishing them success and urging them to better serve the language of the Quran. Shaikh Mohammad had met the Chairman and members of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Award for Arabic language and discussed Arabic language affairs and issues and the best way to disseminate and instill the language in the heart and practices of new Arab generations, who find themselves now alienated from their mother tongue, especially after foreign languages in universities and schools are mixed with Arabic in non-Arabic curriculums.
Shaikh Mohammad called upon all community members to be active ambassadors of the Arabic language and to make it the language of life in all fields.