8th international conference on the Arabic language was held

Ermal BEGA

8^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE WAS HELD

8^th International Conference on Arabic Language was held on 15 and 16 of January, 2013, in Beirut, Lebanon. The event was organized by the World Organization for Arabic Language, based in Beirut, Lebanon. The main topic of this conference was: “Arabic language from its vulnerability risks to the consequences of modernization”.

Various scholars and professors of Arabic language from 12 different countries of the Arab world participated on this event, including scholars and professors from Iran and other countries. These researchers discussed the issue of speaking the Arabic language in the Arab world and its teaching in various schools. It was also discussed about different phonemes used by Arabs and comparisons were made from different Arab countries regarding to the learning of the Arabic language, the formal and non-formal ones.

After the first session of the first day of the conference, a conclusion of academic year 2012-2013 for students of the University of Call in Beirut was made.

A famous calligrapher from Tripoli in Lebanon was also invited to attend this event, who presented a collection of his hand made calligraphy, worked in different types of Arabic script. Also, a special guest at the conference, by the invitation of the World Organization for Arabic Language and Sawt Arnaout International for Culture and Art, both based in Beirut, was the Albanian orientalist Ermal Bega, Executive Director of the Albanian Center for Oriental Studies, who presented a collection of oriental manuscripts owned by afore mentioned center.

The event eventually ended with by donating some calligraphy works to the president of the World Organization for Arabic Language Dr. Abdulnasr Jabr, as well as providing evaluations for participants of this event.

Translated from Albanian by: Amela BAŠOVIĆ