Ermal BEGA
8th
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE WAS HELD
8th 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
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