Participants in the symposium "Poetry and Creativity in the Time of Corona" emphasized that the digital display of poetic and artistic encounters cannot compensate for the direct encounter between poetry, its fans, the theater, its audience, cinema and its fans, and the painting and its direct impact on visitors of art galleries.
This came within the facts of the monetary and intellectual symposium organized by the House of Poetry in Tetouan in northern Morocco, which was held remotely, and the President of the International Center for Intervention Studies Dr. Khaled Amin, the critic Sharaf al-Din Majdoulin, and the Moroccan film expert Ahmed Hosni participated in it.
Khaled Amin considered that "there is no theater without a meeting between performers and audiences", describing the Corona pandemic, which theaters were forced to keep their curtains closed as "the enemy of the theater as a meeting place."
He added about the "digital theater" platforms that it is "a desirable and desirable exception case", but it cannot become a rule in the post-Corona stage "because the habit of going to the theater in our Arab world remains an urgent necessity more than ever."
For his part, Ahmed Hosni reviewed the effects of the Corona epidemic on cinema after closing the halls and canceling the festivals, pointing out that it is a severe crisis for the film sector in the world, as it has become a real threat to the film industry.
He added, "The electronic platforms for electronic broadcasting of films spread, which made huge profits, especially on the Netflix platform, and when some films achieved very large views."