Prof. Fayez Al Qaisi, Professor of Arabic Language at the UAE University, stressed that the roots of the cultural movement in the UAE date back to the 19th and 20th centuries, especially poetry, as poets emerged who contributed to expressing national and national issues. Al-Qaisi considered that cultural life flourished in the country and was significantly developed after the establishment of the Union in 1971.
Al Qaisi said in a symposium held at the Al Ain Book Fair, entitled “The Development and Prosperity of the Cultural Movement in the UAE”, that cultural development has evolved through three basic elements. First, culture is the basis of comprehensive national development, and secondly, the attachment to the national, Arab and Islamic heritage, with constant diligence. Third: Openness to the achievements of human civilization in various areas of life, and interaction with them give and take.
Al Qaisi discussed the factors that contributed to cultural development, including the great cultural heritage repossessed by the UAE and the Arabian Gulf region, which is a common denominator among the people of the region and a symbol of their cultural unity in the elements of material and moral heritage, such as poetry, popular proverbs and legends, traditions, rituals and the arts. Folklore, visual arts, folk clothing, dwellings, materials and buildings, temples and cafes, tools used in crafts and traditional industries, etc., and thus encourage the wise leadership of the UAE writers and writers to move culturally. In addition to the real and correct use of national wealth and national money in cultural development, it was the economic transformation witnessed by the state from sailing and diving to oil and trade, in addition to the efforts of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, and his fellow rulers, Cultural development was parallel to human and economic development.This demonstrates the leadership's awareness of the importance of the human being, which represents the real wealth of the country, in addition to the need to educate, prepare and qualify it to be able to face the challenges.
Al-Qaisi concluded by saying that these institutions and cultural events in all its forms and diversity of programs, have a great responsibility in building a new scientific Arab cultural renaissance, in various branches of human knowledge, and contribute to the care of culture makers, intellectuals, creators, publishers, translators, authors, and youth, in Cultural development has led to the emergence of a large number of UAE nationals and daughters of literary creativity, who contributed their creations in the fields of poetry, essay, story, novel, theater, authorship, and other creative arts. And literary in the Arabian Gulf in particular, and the Arab world in general ».