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Professor Lin Fengmin, President of the Arabic Literature Research Branch, reviewed and summarized the main achievements of the Arabic literature research community in the past year, and put forward hopes for the future work of the society. He expected that the study of Arabic literature would be more in-depth, and proposed the concept of national and regional overall research and development.

Professor Luo Lin, director of the Arabic sub-committee of the Ministry of Education’s Foreign Affairs Commission and dean of the Institute of Country and Regional Studies at Beijing Language and Culture University, said in his speech that Arabic literature research, regional country studies and linguistics research have the same origin. He looks forward to close cooperation between literary research and the Foreign Affairs Commission in the future to integrate resources and create a better future.

The seminar is divided into five sessions. The conference format includes keynote speeches, sub-topic discussions and youth forums, focusing on five major topics: "New Realist Representation of Arabic Literature", "Contemporary Interpretation of Arabic Classic Literature", "Interdisciplinary Research of Arabic Literature", "Arab Film Literature/Drama Literature Research", and "Intertranslation and Comparative Research of Chinese and Arab Literature".


This seminar has achieved fruitful results and has many highlights. At the meeting, scholars paid great attention to and discussed the outstanding current literary works in the Arab world, and reported that some excellent works had been translated into Chinese. The speeches covered a wide range of topics and were highly representative of countries and regions. On the whole, the speeches of the participating scholars reflected that the Chinese Arabic literature research community attaches great importance to the dialogue and interconnection between Chinese and Arab literature and art, attaches great importance to people-to-people connections, and is concerned about the construction of a Chinese-Arab cultural community. In terms of innovative research paradigms, some scholars’ speeches demonstrated their thinking and attempts at interdisciplinary aspects of foreign literary research. In addition, many young scholars emerged at the conference, demonstrating the good atmosphere that the Arabic literature research team continues to inherit.

Miao Li is of one mind and works together with one heart.As Professor Zou Lanfang mentioned in his concluding remarks, the seminar was successfully held as scheduled despite the severe epidemic situation, thanks to the strong support of leaders at both levels of w88 casino and the full cooperation and careful preparation of the teachers in the Arabic Department. The successful conclusion of the conference also benefited from the close attention and active participation of Arabic literature researchers and enthusiasts across the country. This academic seminar focused on a new perspective on Arabic literature research. The participating scholars exchanged research results on the cloud and shared a feast of ideas, which played a positive role in promoting the research on Chinese Arabic literature in the new context.