Al-Mabarrat's pupils reaped brilliant results among the twenty top places in the Arab Thought Foundation's “The Short Story in Their Own Hand” competition, aimed at secondary-stage pupils. Pupil Maryam Dany Chmeissany of Al-Rahma High School took sixth place for her story “No Fault of Mine”; pupil Layn Haitham Al-Rumh of Al-Hadi Institution took ninth place for her story “I Dream of Touching the Stars”; pupil Fatima Hassan Al-Sabbagh of Al-Hassan (a.s.) High School took fifteenth place for her story “The Tale Has Another Pulse”; and pupil Malak Fadi Hammoud of Al-Hassan (a.s.) High School took sixteenth place for her story “The Bleeding of a Wound”. The competition, in which 1,056 pupils from 16 Arab countries took part, had its stories this year address the subject of “the scourge of bullying” and aimed to raise awareness of the necessity of combating all forms of violence and bullying in schools. It comes within the framework of developing the methods of teaching and learning the Arabic language.
