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The Bureau for the Coordination of Arabization was established as part of the vision of a specialised Arab body concerned with coordinating the efforts of Arab states in the field of Arabizing modern terminology, contributing effectively to finding the most efficient means of using the Arabic language in public life, in all stages of education, and in all cultural, scientific and media activities, and following up the Arabization movement across all scientific and technical disciplines.

The Arab states were convinced of the role of this body and the importance of establishing it, so—in implementation of the recommendations of the First Arabization Conference held in Rabat in 1961—the first session of its Executive Council convened in Rabat on 19 February 1962, and it was then attached to the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in March 1969.

When the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) was founded as a specialised agency within the framework of the League of Arab States in July 1970, this body was attached to it in May 1972. It was then known as ( the Permanent Bureau for the Coordination of Arabization in the Arab World), and its internal regulations were approved by the Organization's Executive Council at its eighth session held in Cairo from 27/1 to 3/2/1973,

In accordance with the resolutions of the Executive Council of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization at its sixty-fourth session in 1996 concerning the study of the situation of the Organization's external bodies, the evaluation of their performance and the anticipation of their future, the Bureau's organisational structure was approved at the sixty-seventh session of the Organization's Executive Council in 1998.

Objectives of the Bureau

Making the Arabic language a language of instruction, a language of communication and a language of scientific research to meet the needs of modern life, and contributing to its development and dissemination by establishing a rigorous methodology for preparing the necessary dictionaries and the terminology they require—collecting and classifying it in coordination with the language academies and the bodies specialised in the matter, and tracking the efforts and results produced by their work in order to publish and promote them.

Proceeding from these objectives, the Bureau's tasks can be defined in the following works:

Coordinating the efforts made to enrich the Arabic language with modern terminology and to standardise scientific and civilisational terminology in the Arab world.
Following up on the conclusions reached by the research of the linguistic and scientific academies, as well as the activities of scholars, writers, and translators bearing directly on the issues of Arabization and terminology; and collecting, coordinating, and classifying all of this in preparation for presentation to the Arabization conferences.
Strengthening the bonds of fruitful cooperation with the Arabic language academies and with all specialised Arab and international bodies in order to achieve the Bureau's objectives.
Coordinating the efforts made to expand the use of the Arabic language in teaching at all stages, types, and subjects of education, and in the cultural bodies and the various media outlets.
Following the Arabization movement and the development of scientific and civilisational Arabic in the Arab world and beyond, by collecting the studies related to this subject and publishing them or making them known.
Preparing the specialised lexicographical projects approved by the Arabization conferences and issuing them, and preparing to hold the seminars and study circles scheduled in the Bureau's programmes.
Establishing the terminological database for storing and classifying terminology and for exchanging information and terms with the banks specialised in this field, in pursuit of achieving unified dictionaries and Arabic encyclopaedias with multiple entries in foreign languages.
Holding the periodic Arabization conferences.
Publishing the scholarly efforts in the field of Arabization and terminology standardisation and making them known.

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