The oils had been bought in the UK, which resulted in a trafficking charge.

The vape oils found in Hood’s car on 31 January contained CBD, which is legal in the UK and many other countries, but illegal in the UAE as it contains trace elements of THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was “giving consular support to a British man who has been imprisoned in the UAE”. It is also conducting training sessions in Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art for employees as well as for other government departments.Īnswering queries related to language raised by the employees over various communication channels is another of the daily activities carried out by the team.įida Al-Jundi, founder and former General Manager of Arabic Science News Agency spoke on the features and characteristics of Arabic language.įamous writer Mohammed Hussain Talabi, Algerian cultural ambassador to the UAE, delivered a lecture on Dubai’s experience in the popularising Arabic language.A British football coach has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in Dubai after police discovered four bottles of vape liquid containing CBD in the boot of his car.īilly Hood, 24, from Kensington, was sentenced for trafficking, selling and possessing drugs after he claims he was forced by police to confess in Arabic, a language he does not speak. The Arabic team is now publishing an online monthly bulletin for DM employees. Planning programmes to raise the language skills of employees and finding various channels to share knowledge with regards to the language also fell under the team’s responsibilities.

The Arabic Team was carrying out awareness activities to deepen the basic ideas of the language and try to create Arabic words for the ever-emerging technical words in the fields of employment and services, he said. He said the Dubai Municipality wanted to promote and strengthen the Arabic language through various programmes and projects in line with the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make Dubai a centre of excellence for Arabic.īukhash said Dubai Municipality was the first government department in the emirate to form a special team to promote and strengthen Arabic in line with Dubai’s strategic vision for the year 2021. The Dubai Municipality (DM), the first government department to form a specific team to strengthen the use of the Arabic language, celebrated last week’s World Arabic Language Day with a variety of programmes, including lectures and cultural shows.Īrchitectural Heritage Department director Rashad Bukhash, also the head of the Arabic Team of the municipality, delivered the inaugural speech on the first ever World Arabic Language Day on December 18.

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