The English translation competition 20

The Book club announced its registrations for the second semester on the twitter account for the English Department and the Book Club account. The registered students were sent a link for the meeting. The PSAU Book Club had its first meeting on 30th January 2 pm-3 pm. It discussed the registered participants, the poll for the choice of reading and the leader. The leader for semester 2, 2022 was Tahani Alkaberi, from level 4. The choice with 40.8% of the votes was G.B.Shaw’s Pygmalion. The registered students were informed by the official Bookclub twitter account @psauG_bookclub, and the whatsapp group. It was also decided that the meeting day should be Wednesday and the timing 4 pm- 5 pm, the meetings were to be online. The first meeting was on 9th February 2022, the presentation order and division was decided, and the discussion of the chapters will start from Week 5. The first discussion was by Amjad Faleh Mohammad Alsubaie and Munera Mohammeed Jokah of Acts I and II. The second discussion was of Act III Tahani Alkubiri and Sara Nasser Abdullah Aloqayfi, Act IV by Asma Hsan Haresi. The last act was presented by Ahad Ali Saeed Aldossari, Lujain Mohammed Alhuthayl and Batoul Ibrahim Saleh Almutaiwi. For the 'Enorasi' segment on 9 March 2022we had Dr.Ansa Hameed , faculty Department of English Language and Literature, who shared her ideas of the play. She compared G.B.Shaw’s play Arms and Man to Pygmalion as a criticism about society, by manipulation of language a poor girl was left belonging nowhere. Dr.Basant Moustafa was also present and shared her views.