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The Scientific Council of the Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic will hold its eighth meeting under the chairmanship of Dr. Ramzi Baalbaki in the Ritz Carlton Hotel at Doha between 7 and 8 of December 2016.

The agenda includes ratification of the seventh meeting minutes and the report provided by the dictionary executive body, to be presented by its executive director Dr. Aze-Eddine Bouchikhi, in which the complete production line - from first preparations to last stages “editing and publishing” - followed for elaborating the lexical entries will be detailed; the report will also present, through a temporary publication website, the first batch of the dictionary entries which is composed of more than five thousand terms.

​The council will next look for and discuss mechanisms for validating and approving the lexical entries completed till now, preparation of the dictionary introduction; the relationship between lexical processing and terminology treatment  as well as other scientific issues will also discussed with a careful consideration.