Jeddah (UNA) - Dr. Rami Mohammed Inshasi from the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation stressed that despite all the efforts made to enhance digital content written in Arabic, it is still below expectations, which requires specialists in this field to start creating Arabic content that occupies the position that Arabic deserves in the current digital scene.
This came during his participation in the opening of the “Symposium on Enhancing Arabic Content in Non-Arabic-Speaking OIC News Agencies,” which was held virtually on Monday (September 2, 2024) jointly organized by the Federation of OIC News Agencies and the King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language, with broad participation from member news agencies, international organizations, and a number of diplomats and media professionals.
Dr. Inshasi stressed that there are many motives that make producing digital Arabic content valuable, given the Arabic language’s diverse vocabulary, scientific solidity, and superior ability to express different events, feelings, and ideas.
He highlighted an aspect of the cooperation between the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language in the field of enhancing and supporting the presence of the Arabic language, through a joint program that includes holding training courses and cultural seminars.
He stressed the need to benefit from empowering Arabic content in defending Islamic issues, most notably the Palestinian cause, against negative propaganda, in addition to preserving spiritual and cultural values, confronting media misinformation, protecting youth from harmful content, and confronting hate speech.
It is noteworthy that the symposium witnessed the holding of two specialized discussion sessions, the first of which was entitled: “Challenges of Arabic content in news agencies of non-Arabic-speaking OIC countries,” and the second was entitled: “The vision of the King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language to enhance the content of non-Arabic-speaking news agencies.”
The two sessions reviewed the mechanisms and programmes contributing to linguistic development, discussing the challenges facing the relevant news agencies, and the best ways and solutions to overcome them; to come up with a systematic vision that contributes practically to designing institutional linguistic qualification programmes and plans, and facing the challenges related to the use of the Arabic language for news and media purposes.
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