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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
This is The Fifth Floor, at the heart of global storytelling,
with BBC journalists from all around the world.
I'm your host, Farinak Amidi.
According to UNICEF, millions of children are out of school in the Middle East and North Africa,
with many displaced in Sudan and Gaza.
But there is a BBC program that is trying to bring an online classroom to them.
Here, two characters are being challenged by what they call a mathemagician to solve the question,
what is 432 divided by 12?
This is a maths lesson from DARS, the BBC World Service's educational programme for children.
It was first launched in 2023 in Dari and Pashto,
two of Afghanistan's national languages, and is now also available in Arabic.
Here with me today, we have Hanan Razek.
She is one of the presenters on DARS Arabic, and Georgina Pierce, who is one of the editors.
Hanan and Georgina, welcome to The Fifth Floor.
Thank you so much.