Conference on Arabic literature

Islamabad : Ambassador of Egypt to Pakistan Ahmed Fadel Yacoub on Monday said that the language plays active role in bringing countries closer.

He was addressing on the inaugural session of the two-day international conference on Contemporary Arabic Literature: New Trends in Research & Criticism organized by the Arabic Department of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML). "Islam is more than a religion; it has a culture and civilization and today’s conference will give participants a deeper knowledge of Arabic language and will provide opportunities to strengthen the relation among brother Muslim states," he added.

NUML Director General Brig Muhammad Ibrahim, Dean Languages Dr Safeer Awan, Directors, national and international scholars, Head of Departments, faculty and a large number of students attended the inaugural session. Ambassador said that Egypt will cooperate with Pakistan as for as Arabic language is concerned. He said that this conference will open new ways to understand Arabic language literature.

Earlier, Director General NUML Brig Muhammad Ibrahim welcomed the chief guest and said that every Muslim has strong connection with Arabic as it is the language of the Holy Book Quran and the Hadiths that’s why people of Pakistan have special interest in this language. He said literature has no boundaries and so the culture, today’s conference will pave the way to open new horizons to understand this language as best scholars from different countries will present their research papers in the conference.