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Azerbaijani Language Teaching at Ain Shams University of Egypt

28 January 2010 09:31 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ibad Bagirov â€“ APA. Chair of Turkish Language and Literature at Ain Shams University of Egypt is teaching Azerbaijani language, the university professor Safsafi Ahmad Al-Mursi told APA. He said Azerbaijani language has been taught at the University since 1998 on his initiative. Nearly 50 alumni graduated from the chair he headed in the past years and one those students is continuing his education at Doctorâ€™s Program of the Baku State University.

Professor Al-Mursi emphasized the role Azerbaijani scientists and writers in the development of the Islamic culture since the ancient time already in ancient times. He said he visited Azerbaijan for the third time and previously he attended the World Azerbaijanis Congress. Al-Mursi met with the professors of the Azerbaijani Literature Chair at the Baku State University and chairman of the Writers Union Anar. They discussed the issues related to popularization of contemporary writers in Egypt. The professor proposed to translate works of Azerbaijani poets and writers to Arabic at the translation center near the Ministry of Culture of Egypt. The process will be continued at the Egyptian National Translation Center.

Professor Al-Musri is working now on the selected works of classic and contemporary Azerbaijani literature. He published several articles about Nagorno Karabakh in the journal â€œMiddle East problems and future researchesâ€ of Ain Shams University. The Egyptian professor is an author of 60 articles, 21 books, 21 transtaled books, 4 dictionaries, including Turkish-Arabic dictionary. His book â€œAzerbaijan in the past and present periodsâ€ will be published in Arabic in near future.