Dr. Saeed bin Fayez Al-Saeed, Director and Chairman of the academic arbitration committee of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques International Prize for Translation, said that the prize in its second version received works from 25 countries competing to win the prize; of which 13 countries are Arab, 12 countries are non-Arab. Target and source languages reached 14. Dr. Al-Saeed stated that the 5-branch prize succeeded in soliciting many scientific and intellectual works translated to and from Arabic by top scientists and literary figures from east and west.