Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding to hold conference on Arabic-Chinese translation in Beijing

Doha: The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (SHTAIU) will organize on Thursday the first international conference of...

Doha: The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (SHTAIU) will organize on Thursday the first international conference of its kind on translation between Arabic and Chinese in Beijing.

The conference will feature the participation of a select group of academics and translators from China.

This conference is part of a tour of China by a delegation from the Sheikh Hamad Award, which began today and will continue until Sept. 26. This tour marks the inclusion of Chinese as one of the languages ​​of the 2026 edition of the award.

Held under the theme of the reality and challenges of the translation movement between Arabic and Chinese, the conference is hosted by the School of Arabic Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU).

It represents an unprecedented cultural milestone as the first academic event on Arabic-Chinese translation to be organized in China by a non-Chinese institution. This highlights the pioneering role of the award in building bridges of cultural understanding between East and West.