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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Palestinian Maysa Salameh, since she was a primary school student in Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip), loves the Arabic language, and was keen to establish a personal library in which she collected various books that she got from her school fees, to increase her passion for reading and lead her to achieve a resounding surprise when she revealed the ability to read articles Which is published in newspapers while she is still in the first grade of school, unlike her peers.
The love of the Arabic language continued to grow with her, and she chose to specialize in it at the university. Then she excelled in spreading it when she worked as a supervisor for cultural activities and lobbying and advocacy campaigns at the Builders of Tomorrow Center of the Culture and Free Thought Association in her city.
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Maysa was keen to help all age groups to master the Arabic language, and the center in which she works (Bunnat al-Ghad) dedicated an annual cultural festival for them that aims to develop their language and encourage the habit of reading by choosing an issue to be discussed in classical Arabic.
Maysa says, "The festival serves 1,200 individuals throughout the year, and aims to develop their linguistic side by displaying their creativity in poetry and story by improvisation or advance writing... The participants enrich the linguistic side of individuals through their involvement in the use of classical Arabic."
Maysa's concern was not limited to girls and teenagers, but she also paid great attention to people with hearing disabilities - she was greatly affected by the conditions of the blockade in the Gaza Strip - where the long hours of power cuts prevent this group from communicating through the signal at night hours.
Maysa says that she learned sign language in order to be able to support people with hearing disabilities in creative writing by changing training strategies and integrating with normal boys, using sign language, speech and images, and changing the details of activities to suit people with disabilities.
She adds that she sought to help people with hearing disabilities to recall their memoirs through the "Faint Light" program, which is based on these people writing their memoirs in a smooth literary manner that is compatible with their age level, and activating their imagination by setting up a creative writing program titled "My Letters Weave My Rights."
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Maysaa has been working as a cultural activities supervisor for more than six years. She has supervised thirty publications by boys and girls in the field of short stories and poetry, and is preparing to continue new activities that contribute to spreading the Arabic language.
Maysaa joined the professional fellowship program to teach the Arabic language to non-native speakers, and chose for her scientific graduation project in the program to be a strategy that enables non-native speakers of the Arabic language to learn it through vocabulary, live pictures, and videos.
The various efforts made by Maysaa led to her selection last July among 100 international figures who contributed to spreading the Arabic language, selected annually by the e-Turn International Foundation, which is concerned with issues of the Arabic language, whether for speakers or non-native speakers, and is based in Jordan.
Maysaa expressed her surprise at being chosen among the 100 personalities, and said, “I was hesitant to apply for candidacy because I believed that it was an opportunity reserved for the most generous writers and writers, and that my career in publishing the Arabic language still needed more, but the surprise came when I was chosen among the 100 personalities.”
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