Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Damascus, SANA- Mrs. Asma al-Assad received ten reading champions and their families, as well as the first coordinators and supervisors of the Arab Reading Challenge competition in Syria, in the presence of the Minister of Education and the general coordinator of the competition.
Sham Al-Bakour, Mary Khaddour, Medhat Youssef, Souad Jasser, Tala Murad, Judy Ahmed, Yaqeen Jumida, Judy Hemeish, Alma Fajr, and Wissam Anis are ten heroes who made reading full of fun and benefit.
Mrs. Asma al-Assad said “Today, you are a generation on which hope is established, the generation that preserved its language, read , learn and write, looking at the future with the eyes of civilization and modernity, and its roots are deep in the ground.”
Mrs. Asma stressed that adherence with this land means defending it with all the borders, language, identity, history and culture.
Mrs. Asma said that the real challenge that we must always face lies not only in competitions and contests, nor in the amount of what we read, but how we make reading a bridge to enrich knowledge, communicate with heritage, and consolidate ties with history, present and future.
“The challenge lies in making a reading that enriches our knowledge and morality, and transforms the thought contained in the pages of the books into morality and conscience”, she concluded.
The students pointed out the key role of their families and coordinators in encouraging and helping them in each stage of this competition, and noted the difficulties which have encountered them during participation in the competition and how they overcame them.
The coordinators put forward their ideas for the coming period in terms of reading and reading challenge.
Fedaa al-Rhayiah / Mhamad/Shaza
