Arabic content gap in UAE grows as 80% of media kids consume is foreign, culture chief says

Arabic is spoken by around 430 million people worldwide, a figure expected to surpass 750 million by 2050. Yet children are still consuming most of their content in other languages, highlighting a significant gap in Arabic-language media and entertainment.Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism, said 80 per cent of the content consumed by children is currently in languages other than Arabic.Speaking at the Congress of Arabic and Creative Industries,...

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