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Khamis Community celebrates the World Day of the language plus the opening of "Master of all Languages" Club.

King Khalid University, Media Center

The Girls Community College in Khamis Mushayt has held several activities to celebrate the World Day of the Arabic language. Activities were sponsored by the college Dean, Dr. Dalal Atham, in the presence of a number of Deans, departments Heads, Arabic Language faculty members, teachers of Arabic Language in public education, and a number of students.

The College was decorated with many posters, some of them promoting loyalty to the language of the Holy Quran, while others showed correction to misspellings and linguistic errors.

In an address given by Dr.Dalal Atham - the College Dean - she confirmed that the "Arabic language is an undisputed language and it is a source of pride, honor and dignity for us, in addition to being our way to unity and identity rooting - it is the bowl of our civilization, a nation cannot survive without a language"!

On her part, Dr. Khadija Alhfeza, the Head of the Arabic Language Department at the faculty of Arts and Education also gave a word in which she thanked the College for making the appreciable efforts of holding such remarkable activities. During her speech, she highlighted the reasons why that day was celebrated. AFter that came the turn of Dr. Suhair Al-Qahtani who recited a poem, written by Dr. Assideh Shahbandar.

The sections of the festival varied between songs, acting scenes, grammatical benefits - presented by the students and in an entertaining way - in addition to some presentations that enhance the sense of belonging and loyalty to the Arabic language.

The ceremony witnessed two female workers reverting to Islam, as well as honoring a number of workers as a reward for them after learning the Arabic script and managing to write some Arabic words - again was handled by some of the students.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, a club named "Master of all Languages" Club was opened. The attendees had a look on the work of students, and later signed a document in Arabic two meters in length.