Abu Dhabi Center for Arabic Language Publishes Seven New Books
The Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language has published seven new books as part of the “Basaeer for Research and Studies” series, featuring the winning works of the fifth edition of the “Research Grants” program. This move reflects the center’s commitment to supporting specialized research in the Arabic language and its sciences, and to enhancing its status as a language of knowledge and culture.
The center is scheduled to launch these publications during the upcoming Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which will take place from September 13 to 18, 2026.
In a press statement, the center noted that the new books cover a wide spectrum of linguistic, literary, and heritage studies, including the following titles: “Arabs’ Discovery of Japan: From the Russo-Japanese War to World War II” by researcher Reem Ahmed Saleh; “Dreams, Prison, and Ibn al-Haytham’s Cell: A New Reading of Space in Arab Civilization” by researcher Lina Al-Jammal; “Dictionary of Collocations (Arabic-English)” by researcher Ramadan Bakheet; “Dictionary of French Words of Arabic Origin” by researcher Shaker Nouri; “Dictionary of Postmodern Narrative Terms” by researcher Ahmed Khreis; “The Celestial Star in the French Conquest,” authored by Yuhanna bin Yusuf al-Fransisi, with editing and study by researcher Shahrzad al-Arabi; and “One Thousand and One Nights,” prepared and edited by researchers Haitham Mahmoud Sharqawi, Nayoa Katsumata, and Ahmed Zain al-Din.
Center President Dr. Ali bin Tamim stated that the “Research Grants” program is one of the strategic projects through which the center supports the movement of scientific research in the Arabic language, encouraging researchers to produce rigorous works that keep pace with intellectual developments and contribute to enriching the Arabic library with high-quality studies offering added scientific value.
He added that the program also reflects the center’s commitment to strengthening the status of the Arabic language as a language of science, knowledge, and creativity, expressing pride in the program’s achievements across its successive editions in attracting researchers from around the world and in producing publications and studies that contribute to the development of knowledge fields related to the Arabic language.
The fifth edition witnessed widespread interest from researchers, as the program received 516 applications from 36 countries, with seven research projects winning grants after stages of evaluation and scientific peer review. This growing interest reflects the program’s standing as one of the pioneering initiatives supporting specialized research in the Arabic language and its sciences.
Since its launch, the program has supported 42 high-quality research projects in various fields of the Arabic language and its sciences, thereby enhancing the presence of the Arabic language in the fields of scientific research and knowledge production.
