AbdulAziz Saud Al-Babtain (Arabic: عبدالعزيز سعود البابطين; born in Kuwait in 1936)^{[citation needed]} is a Kuwaiti poet and businessman. He is currently the Head of the Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity.

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Current efforts

He has established the Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic poetry,.[1]

In 2004 he established the Al Babtain Translation Center[2] to support translations into and from Arabic.

The Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity called in January 2016 for contributions to an Arabic epic on themes of peace, tolerance and love.[3]

Since 2016, Al-Babtain has also endowed the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professorship in Arabic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Formerly known as the Laudian Chair in Arabic, it was first endowed in 1636 by Archbishop William Laud and is one of the oldest Chairs of Arabic in Europe. [4]

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