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EDITOR IN CHIEF- ABDULLAH BIN SALIM AL SHUEILI

SQU marks World Arabic Language Day with lectures, exhibition

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MUSCAT: Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), represented by the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, on Tuesday celebrated the World Arabic Language Day.


World Arabic Language Day is celebrated every year on December 18 since 2012. The date coincides with the day in 1973 when the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted Arabic as the 6th official language of the organisation.


Speaking on the occasion, Dr Mohammed bin Salem al Mashani, Head of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, said that SQU celebrates World Arabic Language Day as an official event, taking cue from a number of universities in the Arab world and some other universities that recognise Arabic as a language of science and civilisation.


Hatem bin Rashid al Husseini, a Master’s student in the Arabic Language and Literature Department, presented a poem entitled “Journey to the Throne of the Language” in which he praised the Arabic language and recalled its virtues and advantages.


Prof Mohammed al Hadi al Tarbelsi delivered a lecture on the development of Arabic language in modern age.


He said the future of the Arabic language depends on the future of the creative thought of the nations that speak Arabic. If that thought is existing, the future of Arabic will be great as it was in the past, and if that does not exist, the future will be similar to what Syriac and Hebrew languages experienced.


As a part of the World Arabic Language Day, the Arabic Society at


SQU organised an exhibition titled ‘Tibyan’ that featured three sections.


The first section demonstrated the link between Arabic language with English, Turkish, Persian and Spanish languages. The other two sections featured national literature and women’s issues.


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