Tunisian twins Bisan and Bilsan Kouka, aged twelve, jointly won the 2025 Arab Reading Challenge, reading over 600 books each. They pledged half their prize money to Palestine, with the remainder for their mother. The event, the world's largest Arabic literacy initiative, saw over 32 million participants.
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