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The winning student was awarded a $ 100,000 bursary as well as a cash grant of $ 50,000 made to the student's family. The school with the best reading initiatives was awarded $ 1 million funding while $ 300,000 was offered to the faculty member with the greatest commitment to reading. The balance of
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Challenge was formally opened up to a wider international audience for the first time and a new award was introduced for a student from a non-Arab country, won by Tasneem Aidi from France. The entrants from non-Arab countries compete for an award of Dhs100,000 and are only required to summarise
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Cultural Development, which asserts the average reading time for an Arab child is six minutes a year compared with 12,000 minutes in the West and a study conducted by the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt which found the average reading rate of an Arab individual is a quarter of a
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In all, over 7.4 million students from 41,000 schools in 25 countries around the world, supported by 76,500 faculty, participated in the 2016 Challenge, reading over 200 million books. Al Iman School – Girls sector, in
Bahrain, won the best school award, and the $ 1 million prize. Houriya Al Thil
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Challenge focuses on students from Years 1 to 12 from schools across the Arab world. The competition runs annually from September to March. In order to enter the challenge, children are encouraged to read books and summarise them in a series of five coloured 'passports', with their teachers
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Reading Challenge ran from September 2015 until March 2016 and was won by a seven-year-old Algerian student, Mohammad Farah, with the Talaih Al Amal high school in Palestine winning the $ 1 million funding award. In all, 3.59 million students from 30,000 schools in 21 countries
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beat 52,000 participating schools to take the Dhs1 million prize for having the best reading initiatives in the region and Aisha
Tuwergy from Saudi Arabia took home Dh300,000 for being the faculty member who had done most to encourage reading in her school.
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student, selected from the five finalists by a jury and a popular vote among attendees at the finals ceremony. The jury members were Bilal Al Badoor, Badrya Al Bishr, and the winner of the ARC distinguished teacher award in 2016, Hanan Al Hroob.
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checking the summaries. Each passport has ten pages, hence children read fifty books throughout the academic year. They then pass through a number of qualification stages at school, district, national and regional levels.
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25 books to enter. In all, students based in 44 countries took part in the 2018 Challenge, which saw a 25% increase in participation to a total of 10.5 million students and 87,000 faculty members.
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Reading Challenge was the winner: 9 year-old Mariam Lehsen Amjoun from Morocco took home the Dhs 500,000 prize money. The Ekhlas School from
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