The ‎Minister of Education in the Government of National Unity, Mousa Al-Magaryef, announced the launching of the "Libyan Reading Challenge" initiative and the establishment of the electronic library, during his chairmanship of the first meeting of the coordinators of the Arab Reading Challenge initiative, on Thursday.

The meeting was held in the meeting hall of the Libyan National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, in the presence of the initiative's coordinator in Libya, Ali Kanun, according to what the ministry published on its Facebook page.

The ministry said that the meeting discussed the rules and structure of the initiative's work teams and subcommittees, and held training workshops for the coordinators to register on the initiative's platforms and document the activities and programs of the coordinators and supervisors.

Al-Magaryef stressed the importance of effective participation from educational institutions and supervisors in the initiative, and the support of all state agencies for the success of the initiative, which he described as national work to develop the cultural aspects of students, develop reading skills, and bring them closer to books.

The Arab Reading Challenge is a project launched by the Vice President of the UAE, Mohammed bin Rashid, and aims to encourage reading among students in the Arab world through the commitment of more than one million students in the Arab region to participate in reading 50 million books during each academic year.