Speaking to reporters, Kerala Sahitya Academy president Perumbadavam Sreedharan said there was mutual cultural and literary relations between these countries even before the Christian era. There are several Arabic words in Malalayam literature in vogue and vice versa, he said.
He said eminent writers in Arabic like Dr Habeeb Yousuf Sayag, Dr Shihab Ghanem, Ibrahim Mubarak and Dr Mariam H Al- Shenasi (UAE), Liana Badr (Palestine), Ali kan aan (syria), Mahamoud Saeed i and Asma Azarooni (Iraq), Mohammed Eid Ibrahim (Egypt), Azhaar Ahmed (Oman) , Salim Khalid and Al Remaidi (Kuwait) had already confirmed their entries.
The minister for cultural affairs, K C Joseph would inaugurating the festival, he added.
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