All You Need to know about World Arabic Language Day

18 December marks the World Arabic Language Day. The first time UNESCO celebrated with it was in 1973.

UNESCO selected this date as it marks the anniversary of the adopted resolution by the General Assembly of listing the Arabic language as one of the UN's formal languages.

The Arabic language is considered one of the most spoken languages around the world as more than 400 million persons speak Arabic around the world.

Moreover, the Arabic language is the primary language of Islam, the Quran, and its rituals.

World Arabic Language Day commemorates the role Arabic played in promoting the dissemination of the sciences and philosophies of ancient civilizations such as the Greeks and the Romans, and in giving birth to the European Renaissance.

This day targets enhancing the position of the Arabic language on international occasions, making use of the Arabic language for connecting Arabic-speaking communities together, and encouraging researchers to explore the poetics of the language.

In the same context, poet Mohamed El Boghadadi revealed that he is calling for recording the art of calligraphy on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage sites in need of urgent preservation.

Egypt succeeded in recording Al Sira El Helaleya, Tahtib, Aragoz (puppets theater), and the textile manual industry in Upper Egypt.