The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (RCA) will host Dr. Rafia Ghobash and her new publication “A Woman Ahead of Her Era” during a panel discussion and signing ceremony tomorrow at Al Safa Art and Design Library in Dubai.
The signing ceremony and the session are a celebration of Emirati women and their achievements, and in recognition of the importance of their roles and the impact of her presence in society, as the writer will talk about her outstanding publication, in which the story of «mother and homeland», underlined, and discovered after its completion that «was not a human biography as much as the memory of society».
The session will be attended by Hala Badri, Director General of the Culture and Arts Authority in Dubai, and a group of authors and poets at Al Safa Art and Design Library in Dubai, tomorrow at 6 pm.
Through the event, Dubai Culture aims to support the UAE's knowledge output, highlight the role of Emirati women, inform the public of the value of their achievements, enrich the cultural landscape, and celebrate local creativity and its owners.
Exceptional personality
The book 'A Woman Ahead of Her Era' speaks of an exceptional figure who has been at the center of Dr. Rafia Ghobash's life, her mother Ousha bint Hussain bin Nasser Lootah, who, through her biography and details of her life, documented the social, economic and cultural history of Dubai and presented a model of a woman who embodied the traditions of her community. At its best, it was an example of progress, leadership and initiative.
The book evokes many of the events of the sixties social in a humanitarian, psychological and social context, as it dealt with the environment in which Ousha bint Hussein bin Nasser Lootah lived, and affected her neighbors, relatives and friends, and those who dealt with them in the areas of trade, economy and the fields of culture and literature, so they all became part of the memory of the place And time.
Different women
In her new publication, the author highlighted the remarkable societal interaction of the period, highlighting the active contribution of women to economic activity and the yearning for human liberation in its general sense.
The Ghobash invoked time with all its beautiful human details, contemplating the changes that have taken place in society, so that the human remains - despite his adherence to its values, heritage and roots.
The "woman before her age" is a letter of fulfillment plan written by her mother Ousha bint Hussein bin Nasser Lootah, and who was present in her life, in an attempt to restore the taste of the lives of those who loved and left, and satisfy her passion for writing.
short film
The discussion session, which celebrates Emirati women on its 28 August day, includes a short film about Emirati women in the 1960s and the important roles they played during that period.