More than 1,000 children enrolled in Qatar’s independent schools will gather tomorrow to try to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever reading lesson.
The event, which is being held to mark UNESCO’s World Book Day, will be staged at the Qatar National Convention Center in Education City.
Supreme Education Council (SEC) officials said they hope more than 1,000 children between the ages of five and 10 years old will gather at the venue for an hour-long Arabic reading class, during which they’ll read the children’s book “Al Ghadab” (Angry) by Sarah Medina.
The current world record is held by a group of 451 American school children. Adjudicators from Guinness World Records will be on site tomorrow to verify if the Qatar group manages to surpass this number.
The record-breaking attempt is being organized by Qatar-based reading program Maktaba Qatar and Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, in conjunction with sponsors RasGas.
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