Shady Arsen, 4th year student of the Arabic department of the Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of International Relations, took 2nd place at the III All-Russian Student Olympiad in Arabic with international participation in the nomination “Poetic Competition”, held from October 31 to November 1, 2019. The Olympiad is an annual event, organized by the Institute of international relations of the Kazan federal University.
This year the competition was attended by 114 students representing Russian universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Simferopol, as well as Belarus, Armenia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Among the nominations are the written competition, the competitions of translation, simultaneous translation, oral speech, the poetry competition, and the photo contest “Arab world in the lens”.
The jury consisted of highly qualified teachers, leading scientists and experts representing universities participating in the Olympiad, including Dr. Mohammed Saleh al-Ammari, Executive Director of the Al-Hadara Center for Arabic Culture at KFU, as well as visiting teachers from various countries: professor at the University Muhammad V Dr. Mohammed al-Hannash from Morocco, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Arab Republic of Syria to the Russian Federation Dr. Riad Haddad, cultural attache of the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow Mohammed Algebali.
For the Department of Oriental Studies, it is a great honor to be awarded a prize in the oldest oriental center of Russia - Kazan University, which was created in 1804. It was here that in 1807 for the first time at the university level teaching of Oriental languages was organized at the Department of Oriental Languages, headed by Kh. D. Fren (later from 1818 to 1842 - Director of the Asian Museum, the forerunner of the current Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Shadi Arsen speaks Kazakh, Russian, English, Turkish and Arabic, actively studies the Persian language, enjoys photography and video, composes poems in various languages. Recently, he participated in the conference “Arab Youth International Model of the United Nations”, held in Dubai from September 19 to 22, 2019, where he made a presentation in English on the topic “Disarmament agreement and internatioanl security” (“Agreement on disarmament and international security”).
Arsen’s victory also has a special symbolic meaning in the year of celebrating the 20th anniversary of the creation of the “Eurasian” school of oriental studies. Exactly 20 years ago, in 1999, the Faculty of Oriental Studies was opened at Eurasian University, which in 2000 was restructured into the Department of Oriental Studies, which currently exists.
