Int'l moot on Arabic literature takes place at AIOU this month.

ISLAMABAD -- A first-ever international conference on 'Comparative Arabic Literature' will be held here at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on November 21.

Foreign scholars and academicians will be from Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and some other countries.

Besides this, there will be a big number of participants from home, representing Universities, academia and some religious institutions, said the AIOU's Dean Arabic and Islamic Studies Dr. Shah Mohyuddin Hashimi on Sunday.

The conference, he said has been convened in the line with the vision of the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Zia-Ul-Qayyum, who wished promoting maximum interaction with the foreign countries to take a common position on the matters relating Islamic values and culture.

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