Sudanese student wins Arab Reading Challenge in Dubai

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Sudanese girl Hadeel Anwar Al Zubair became the champion of the Arab Reading Challenge 2019 bagging a cash prize of Dh500,000.  Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2X9SfKY  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #Dubai #ArabReadingChallenge #education

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00:00The book I'm giving you is my 9th book which is called Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Madroud.

00:10Sudanese student Hadil Anwar al-Zubair became the grand winner of the Arab Reading Challenge

00:152019 on Wednesday, bagging a cash prize of 500,000 dirhams.

00:19After a year of intense rounds of the contest, the grand finale was held at Dubai Opera.

00:24The five finalists performed the last round live in front of a packed audience.

00:30His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE

00:35and ruler of Dubai, crowned the champion who outdid 13.5 million students who participated

00:41in the year-long challenge.

00:42I feel so proud of all the kids who are reading the Arab Reading Challenge, so I want to say

00:49to you I love you so much and keep going on.

00:51Sheikh Mohammed was accompanied by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum,

00:56Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed

01:00al-Nayan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Muna al-Kindi, Secretary

01:05General of the Arab Reading Challenge.

01:11The fourth edition of the challenge has attracted 13.5 million students from 67,000 schools

01:17in 49 countries, a four-fold rise from the first edition, which saw 3.5 million students

01:23from 15 countries in 2016.

01:26Irish Eden Belyaza for Gulf News

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