Doha: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) last night launched Dhad events to celebrate World Arabic Language Day and highlight Arabic culture and identity.
Under the theme, ‘Spreading Arabic language is the responsibility of all’, Katara unveiled two Arabic writing competitions — illustrated story and lyric poetry contests — and the annual Dhad Week.
The Dhad events aim to improve the linguistic skills of children and adults, help them recognise the beauty of Arabic language, encourage thinking and innovation, and develop deeper understanding of syntactic and morphological rules.
The illustrated story contest will include words and photos and aims to make the reading of Arabic language attractive to readers. Entries should present an original idea on teaching Arabic. They should use standard Arabic language complying with grammatical rules. Photos and graphics should be attractive, clear, and match the aims and religious and social values. They should not be less than six pages or more than 10, with no less than 24 illustrations.
Entries for the lyric poetry contest should be original, written in standard Arabic language, comply with grammatical rules and aim to teach Arabic. The content should be in line with religious and social values and the entries should have not less than 10 verses.
The deadline for submitting entries is May 24, 2015. The entries will be evaluated by a committee that will choose five winners in each contest, who will receive $5,000 each, and five runners-up who will receive $2,500 each.
QNA
