The Committee for the management of festivals and cultural and heritage programs in Abu Dhabi, launched the initiative «UAE Dallah», which comes within the strategy of the Committee to preserve and preserve the UAE heritage, and promote its practice among members of society, especially the younger generations.
Obaid Khalfan Al Mazrouei, Director of the Planning and Projects Department of the Committee, said that the initiative seeks to revive the heritage practices related to the UAE and to cherish, protect and preserve the values associated with it, as well as to revive the culture of its presence in public and private events and within the UAE councils and houses as a symbol of authentic values; In addition to documenting its industry and recording it as a living heritage, preserving the old evidence known to the people of the UAE, enhancing its historical value, and working to create a market that ensures its sustainability.
Al Mazrouei pointed out that the initiative launched on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition is in line with the Committee's strategy to preserve and promote the UAE heritage, pointing out that such initiatives contribute to the preservation of heritage in all its forms.
He explained that the dallah dedicated to Arabic coffee symbolizes the hospitality that characterizes the UAE society, which made the individual strongly rooted in Emirati traditions.In 2015, the UAE was able to register Arabic coffee at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the representative list of cultural heritage. Physical.
Al-Mazrouei added that «the UAE Dallah is not just a simple copper bowl, but a distinctive piece of art was made by hand, as it bears the fingerprints of its expert craftsman, and may bear the name of the owner of the house or certain symbols, and this is what the Committee was keen to work on through this initiative, to be Manufacturing traditional cuddles as we inherited from parents and grandparents, which the Committee through its stand in the exhibition of hunting and equestrian models.
Dallah described the Arab coffee as «the companion of the UAE's Darb all the time, find it on different occasions, houses and various councils, offices and institutions, a companion trail in the solution and travel, do not like hunting trips without them, and does not like sniping only after a cup of coffee from Dallah The Emirati is keen to choose his delta very carefully, it is part of his daily life ».
Al Mazrouei said that the committee always strives to provide all that is new and contributes to highlighting the heritage of the UAE in all its aspects, by focusing on handicrafts, folklore and everything related to the marine and desert environments, stressing the Committee's keenness to preserve and promote popular heritage and culture locally and internationally. , And passed on to successive generations.
Obaid Khalfan Al Mazrouei:
«The initiative seeks to revive the heritage practices related to the UAE and the pride associated with the values».