In the Middle East category, Egyptian-based Moroccan singer Samira Said, who is a star throughout the Arabic-speaking world, was triumphant.
The Director-General, Irina Bokova, welcomed the initiative to hold the celebration and underlined the outstanding historical contribution of the Arabic language to world civilization.
The celebrations for World Arabic Language Day continued with a ceremony to nominate Mr Metin Arditi as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young Israeli and Palestinian musicians through his Instruments for Peace Foundation.
"It's the best feeling in the world, " she said in Arabic, her words translated by an interpreter.
He was not the biggest fan of Clarke as counterterrorism czar and says he thinks it is more important to increase the pool of analysts and intelligence officers fluent in Arabic and knowledgeable about terrorism in the Islamic world.
She underscored that languages are not only tools of communication -- they carry values and meaning, and they embody identities in all their diversity and richness, conveying visions of the world, emphasizing again the contribution of Arabic, its poets and writers, to universal culture.
And while it may seem curious that explanatory texts and labels are only in French, English and Spanish, this international labeling and absence of Arabic makes a powerful statement: These works belong to a shared world heritage just like those in the rest of the Louvre.
While it is assumed that the new station would not be a mouthpiece for the French government, French media chiefs say it would offer a different perspective on world events than that offered by CNN or the BBC, or the increasingly popular Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera.
Founded in 1996 as an Arabic-language satellite channel, Al Jazeera has become the most-watched news channel in the Arab world.
Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.
He enriched an Arabic literature which, while perhaps incomparable for its poetry, was then still largely innocent of the fully formed imaginary world of the novel.
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