Arabic+Debating+at+Ahmed+Bin+Hanbal+Secondary+School

=**Arabic Debating at Ahmed Bin Hanbal Secondary School**=

=== After reading a report about **[|Qatar Debate]** which discussed developing debating in Arabic in schools in Qatar, **Ahmed Sultan**, the Coordinator of the Arabic Department in my school **"Ahmed Bin Hanbal Independent Secondary School for Boys"** contacted the organisation and was invited to take a team of boys from our school to a workshop at Qatar Foundation. === From the workshop the boys were selected to take part in the first inter-school debate in Arabic to be held in Qatar. The debate was held as a presentation at the **Arab World Conference on Human Trafficking** held at the Grand Hyatt Regency Hotel, under the auspices of **Sheikha Mouza Almisnid**, from the 21st-22nd March 2010. The boys’ team of **Mohammed Alamer**, **Abdullah Al Rumahi** (ABHSS) and **Yousif Fakhroo** (ABASS) argued the moot “That this house believes that the receiving countries of victims of trafficking in human beings should pay compensation to them” against a team of girls (**Gwor Abdul Waheed**, **Amna Abdulaziz** and **Al Jazi Al Shimry**) from Doha schools. The keenly argued debate was held in front of an appreciative audience of influential delegates to the Human Rights Conference on the 22nd of March. The students acquitted themselves with distinction and took questions from the floor with assurance and confidence. The adjudicators declared the boys’ team the winners following the summing up by the team leaders. As a result of the boys’ participation in the debate the Arabic Department has been contacted by **Dr. Hayat Marifi**, Sheika Mousa’s personal assistant, who has indicated that she wishes to visit Ahmed Bin Hanbal Secondary School to congratulate the boys and to discuss further developing Arabic debating in the schools.