A forum organized by the Al Owais Cultural Foundation over the course of two days

"Modernity and innovation" ... a greeting to Habib Al-Sayegh on the anniversary of his first departure

A group of poets, critics, writers and intellectuals participated in the symposium. ■ From the source

The Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation organized, on the evening of last Wednesday and Thursday, a virtual forum on “the late poet Habib Al Sayegh ... the biography of modernity and renewal”, through the “Zoom” platform, and the forum sessions were broadcast through the Al Owais Cultural Foundation page on “Facebook” .

The activities of the forum were attended by the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, Dr. Suleiman Musa Al-Jasem, the Secretary-General of the Foundation Abdul Hamid Ahmed, and a specific audience that followed the proceedings of the forum through virtual space.

A group of poets, critics, writers, and intellectuals participated in the symposium, with working papers, testimonies and readings from the poetry of the late poet Habib Al-Sayegh, whose first anniversary of his death passed on August 20, and a film entitled: “The Glow of Poetry and Life” was shown during the forum, about the poet’s poetic and media career. It was produced by the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, with a duration of five minutes.

Dr. Sulaiman Musa Al-Jassim said that the poet and journalist Habib Al-Sayegh, through his poetic experience, surpassed the local and Gulf horizons, to the Arab horizon, becoming one of the most deserved flags of Arab poetry and one of the flags of poetic modernity in the Arab Gulf. On the other hand, he was able for the first time to become the Secretary General For the Union of Arab Writers, after he held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Writers Union for several years.

Al-Jassim added: Habib Al-Sayegh did not occupy positions and responsibilities for developing his poem, until he won the Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Prize for its 14th session in the field of poetry, and he is the first Emirati to win this award for his efforts in renewing the form of the poem, its rhythm and its contents in its three styles: (column, tense and prose) And they turned into poetic mirrors through which he triumphs over the struggles of whatever human being, and he took them out of their localities into the broadness of general human concern.

Then the documentary film “The Glow of Poetry and Life” was shown, which stopped at stations from the life of the late poet Habib Al-Sayegh, after which the proceedings of the forum began, in which Dr.

Maryam Al-Hashemi with a paper entitled: “Habib Al-Sayegh’s Poetic Self-Industry”, followed by Sameh Kaoush’s paper entitled: “The Lament of Places, the Richness of Visions: Controversy of Object and Place in Habib Al-Sayegh’s Text”, after which Muhammad Abdel Qader Sabil read a critical interposition entitled: “Future Consumption ... Strange Habib Al-Sayegh double ».

At the end of the first day, Saeed Al-Saqlawy gave a personal testimony on Habib Al-Sayegh, and the sessions of the first day were moderated by Mr. Ibrahim Al-Hashemi.

On the second day of the forum, Dr. Samar Rouhi Al-Faisal inaugurated a research entitled “The Sayegh’s Prose, A Reading of Articles”, after which Dr.

Khaled Omar Bin Qaqah is an illumination under the title "Habib Al-Sayegh ... the Penetrating Media and the Burning Poet."

Then Dr.

Khalifa Yassin Bin Arabi, a paper entitled: “The dualism of self and place in Habib Al-Sayegh’s poetry ... A reading in texts (poems on Bahrain)”.

For his part, the poet Ahmed Al-Shahawi read an intervention titled “Habib Al-Sayegh: The poet’s biography in his text”, followed by the testimony of the poet Youssef Abulouz, and a critical intervention from Dr.

Wijdan Al-Sayegh, and the forum concluded with poetry readings from Habib Al-Sayegh's poetry presented by the poet Mahmoud Nour, and the second day's media sessions were moderated by Dr. Parween Habib.

Poetry book

On the occasion of the first anniversary of Habib Al-Sayegh's departure, the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, within the “Winners” series, issued a new poetry book entitled: “The Rose of Old Age” by the late poet Habib Al-Sayegh (1955-2019), a tradition followed by the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Foundation Cultural, as it publishes a book for each of its prize winners.

Suleiman Musa Al-Jassim:

Habib Al-Sayegh was not held by the positions and responsibilities for developing his poem.

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