Mrs. Asma al-Assad receives ten reading heroes , their families, coordinators and supervisors of the reading challenge competition

Damascus (ST): Ten heroes take the book as a friend and the best companion for them, each one of them is a library of knowledge, the most beautiful in them are their words and expressions, and their spirit because reading has become a mirror that reflects the magnificence of the words they stored.

Mrs. Asma al-Assad received the heroes of the Arab reading challenge at the level of Syria for the past year who qualified for the finals of the competition in the United Arab Emirates along with their families, coordinators and supervisors of the competition in the presence of the Minister of Education and the general coordinator of the Arab Reading Challenge competition.

Mrs. Asma told them: “Today, you are a generation on which hope is based, a generation that preserves its language, reads and learns through it. It looks at the future with the eyes of civilization and modernity, and its roots lie deep in the ground.”

During the meeting, Mrs. Asma also stressed that holding on to this land means defending it with all its borders, language, identity, history and culture and that the real challenge that we must always face, and not only in contests and competitions, is not how much we read, but how do we read? How do we make reading a bridge to enrich knowledge, communicate with heritage, and establish firm roots in history and the present, and thus in the future.

During the meeting, the students talked about their experience in this competition, how their relationship was with the book, and how their parents and coordinators were by their side at every step, encouraging them, helping them, and sharing with them the stages of the competition up to the finals. They talked about the difficulties they encountered during their participation in the Arab Reading Challenge and how they overcame them.

K.Q.