With participation of 113 students from various provinces , the final qualifiers began on Saturday at the level of Syria for the Arab Reading Challenge initiative, in its seventh season, organized by the United Arab Emirates.

The two-day competitions will be held in the Ministry of Education building in Damascus, under the supervision of a jury coming from the UAE, where the participants will be evaluated according to a matrix of arbitration that includes speaking method, language skills, achieving the impact of the book and projecting it on society, the general coordinator of the initiative in Syria, Ali al-Abbas said .

Al-Abbas indicated that among the participating students, there are /11/ with special needs students who reached the final stage qualifiers and three of them will be chosen to represent Syria at the Arab level in the last stage of the initiative that will be held in the UAE next November.

Abbas added that the total number of students who participated in the initiative is /363/ thousand students from different provinces.

Minister of Education, Darem Tabaa, for his part, said that this participation is the second for Syria in the Arabic Reading Challenge.

The Education Ministry held the second stage of the Arab Reading Challenge qualifiers at the level of educational regions on the 28th of last May, while the first stage was at the school level on the 26th of last April.

The Arab Reading Challenge is an initiative launched by the United Arab Emirates seven years ago, and it is a competition for reading in Arabic, in which students from different categories participate, and each participant is required to read fifty books from outside the curriculum.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency