OFAI Researcher Peter Hallman has been awarded the Mohammad bin Rashid Arabic Language Award in the category of ‘distinguished individual’ for the year 2024 at an awards ceremony in Dubai on October 10, 2024. The Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award is the highest appreciation of the efforts of individuals and organizations for the Arabic Language, and is part of the initiatives launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, to celebrate the pivotal role of the Arabic language in enriching global cultural dialogues, in addition to enhancing the status of the Arabic language and encouraging those who aim to nourish it. The category ‘distinguished individual’ honors an individual who has been instrumental in bringing Arabic into the purview of art, science, or technology internationally and illuminating Arabic on the world stage. Hallman received the award for his longstanding and intensive linguistic research on the Arabic language, especially in the underrepresented area of semantics. The awards ceremony was held in the context of the 10th Annual International Arabic Language Conference, where over 2000 participants from 85 countries attended talks on Arabic education, technology, media, communication, language policy, history, linguistics, and many other topics.
