DUBAI: Student Abdullah Mohammed Murad Abdul Hameed Abu Khalaf was crowned champion of the 5th edition of the Arab Reading Challenge at the level of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Over 1.5 million students from 3,433 schools took part in the largest Arab reading event of its kind.
Around 21 million students participated in the contest in the Arab world. The final qualifiers competition was launched last August at the level of the kingdom and included 485 finalists, of whom ten qualified first, until the jury selected the winner at the national level for this year’s session.
“Distinguished Supervisor Award” was won by Fakhri Al Mayaas. Al Hassad Al Tarbawi School at Amman Governorate received the “Excellent school award” of the 5th edition of the Arab Reading Challenge. The event was organized by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, MBRGI, with the participation of students from 52 countries worldwide.
The Arab Reading Challenge 2020 relied on technology and digital tools extensively. The students were provided with reading materials digitally, allowing the participants to summarize the books that the participants read through e-folders, in addition to the provision of a digital supervision system that allowed supervisors to follow-up on students’ performance in the Challenge, as well as holding the initiative’s arbitration committees for qualifiers in their various stages virtually.
The challenge is an Arabic reading competition for students from Years 1 to 12 from schools across the Arab world. The competition starts every year in September until the end of March. There are five stages of competition for reading ten books and summarizing their content in the challenge passports.
Source: wam.ae
