RIYADH: The King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language on Tuesday announced the winners of the third Children’s Recitation Challenge with total prizes exceeding SR200,000 ($53,344), the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The competition required children between the ages of 5 and 12 to record a high-quality five-minute video clip of them reciting Arabic poetic texts and to publish it on X (formerly Twitter) using a specific hashtag.
First place was won by Saad Mohammed Al-Khowaiter from Saudi Arabia with a prize of SR30,000; second place was awarded to Musab Abdulrahman Abdulhamid from Morocco with a prize of SR25,000.
Ramadan Mahmoud Mohammed Abu Jazar from Palestine won third place and a prize of SR20,000, while winners between fourth and tenth place received SR10,000. Those who achieved 11th to 15th place received SR5,000, and those from 16th to 30th place received SR3,000.
The winners came from countries including Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and the US.
The Children’s Recitation Challenge aims to enhance the presence of the Arabic language among children, disseminate it on interactive platforms and encourage more young people to speak it.
