UAE to launch new strategy for publishing

CHANGES IN CURRICULA AND DIGITAL DATABASE OF LOCAL LITERARY WORKS

The UAE will launch a new strategy next year to stimulate the country’s publishing sector, it was announced at the Arabic Language Summit in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Noura Bint Mohammad Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Youth, inaugurated the two-day summit at Manarat Al Saadiyat organised by the Ministry of Culture and Youth in cooperation with the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC).

In a presentation, Al Kaabi announced that the UAE is developing a new strategy to boost the literature and publishing sector in the UAE.

“The idea is to streamline literature and publishing by strengthening legislation to protect copyright and intellectual property rights of authors and publishers,” Al Kaabi said.

“We shall analyse the needs of the sector to streamline initiatives, programmes and literary achievements of Emiratis. These will be included in educational curricula, and help us prepare a digital database for local literary works followed by an executive report that includes key strengths, challenges, and opportunities for the sector,” she added.

The idea is to streamline literature and publishing by strengthening legislation to protect copyright and intellectual property rights of authors and publishers.”

Noura Bint Mohammad Al Kaabi | Minister of Culture and Youth

30 academics exchanging ideas on Arabic language

Over 30 intellectuals, writers and academics from around the world are participating at the summit to share insights on a wide range of issues facing Arabic as a language.

The Arabic Language Academy in Damascus, the oldest Arabic language academy in the world, is the guest of honour at the event for its efforts in preserving the language, and developing it as the language of science and knowledge.

The summit also celebrates the Alexandria Library as the central figure at the event.

Today, a ‘Summit Retreat’ will host a group of writers, academics and specialists in the field of Arabic language to discuss many issues of the Arabic language and its consequences.

The summit will discuss several topics, most notably the recommendations issued in the report ‘The State and Future of the Arabic Language’ issued by the Ministry of Culture and Youth in December 2021, which represents a framework for consolidating the Arabic language as a language of science, knowledge and identity.