Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Cultural Foundation announced Saturday that Oxford University chose some verses of Poet Abdulaziz AlBabtain to be engraved on one of its walls, in recognition of the poet's projects.
The University selected three verses of 'Alibdaa alkhaled' Poem, 'immortal innovation', to be written in Arabic on a wooden board on a wall of a hall, the foundation said in a statement to KUNA.
The board was put in a distinguished place in the Faculty of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, humanitarian sciences department, to attract the visitors, mainly the Arabs who feel pride for the poet's innovation, it added.
In 2016, Poet AlBabtain planted the 'tree of peace' on which he wrote, in both English and Arabic, a 'dedication of Kuwait's people to this scientific edifice to express continued appreciation and love'.
In addition, Al-Babtain was honored by the university in 2016, writing his name on Laudian Professor of Arabic as 'Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic'.
Established in 1636, the Laudian Chair in Arabic is one of the oldest professorships of Arabic in Europe.
Source: Kuwait News Agency