{
  "id": 8625041,
  "title": "Qatar Foundation launches second BilAraby gathering",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/qatar-foundation-launches-second-bilaraby-gathering",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-20T05:41:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/20/09/2026/qatar-foundation-launches-second-bilaraby-gathering"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Doha, Qatar - The BilAraby Annual Gathering 2026 kicked off yesterday at Multaqa (Education City Student Center) under the theme 'With Our Ideas, We Build'. The two-day event, organized by Qatar Foundation's BilAraby initiative, gathered senior dignitaries, thinkers, creators, and experts from various sectors to explore solutions for societal challenges through knowledge and creativity.\n\nThe gathering featured 14 speakers discussing topics such as media, science and technology, Artificial Intelligence, precision medicine, genomics, architecture, heritage, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, peacebuilding, sports, and social work. Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Ajail, Executive Director, Office of the Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Foundation, emphasized that the event aims to bring together diverse experiences to understand community issues.\n\nMany life challenges cannot be addressed by a single discipline, noted Al-Ajail. The Arabic language will play a significant role in this exploration, and Arabic speakers should have a greater role in creating knowledge through their creativity and learning from others, he added.\n\nThe opening ceremony was hosted by prominent media presenters Mohamed Errammach and Sara Rasheed. Wael Al Dahdouh, Head of the Gaza Strip Bureau, Al Jazeera Media Network, delivered the first talk, 'Please… Answer Me'. Al Dahdouh discussed the theme of resilience, sharing his experience as a journalist covering the war and the conflict between his duty to report people's suffering and his fears for his family. He emphasized that DNA is a highly accurate historical record, revealing genetic overlap and the long history of migration and contact between communities.",
  "summary": "<p>Doha, Qatar: The second edition of the BilAraby Annual Gathering 2026 begun yesterday under the theme ‘With Our Ideas, We Build’ at Multaqa (Education City Student Center).</p> <p>The gathering brings together senior dignitaries, alongside thinkers, creators, and experts from various sectors, to discuss ways of harnessing knowledge and creativity to address issues facing society. The two-day…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}