Discuss the "beauty of books" on the occasion of International Literacy Day
Educated Arab women: Language is the identity
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Arab intellectuals and writers emphasized that language is the identity of man and the main link between him and his history, past, present and future, and without it he loses an important part of his being, stressing the need to restore the prestige of the Arabic language and its position in society and among the new generations that have begun to abandon it.
Emirati writer Reem Al Kamali explained that the Arabic language is an ancient language and it is not fair to lose it, stressing that the history of the Arabic language dates back to ancient centuries, and from which many other languages branched out, as it did not have an alphabet at the beginning, referring to the virtual evening organized by the Salon «Forum Literary in cooperation with the magazine "Villa 88", the day before yesterday, entitled "The Beauty of Books", on the occasion of the International Literacy Day, which falls on September 8, in the presence of Sheikha Dr. Shamma bint Muhammad bin Khalid Al Nahyan, that the connection of the Arabic language with the Islamic religion, despite It is a precedent for religion in time. It had a role in highlighting and spreading the Arabic language as the language of the Qur’an, affirming, “Most of the colonial powers that came to the region realized that your religion is your language, and if you go to your language, your relationship with your religion will recede, and you lose your identity and the basic characteristics of your personality, as if you lost yourself.”
Between history and novel
On her literary writings and their relationship to history;
The author of the novel “The Sultanate of Hormuz” and “The Dalma Statue” refused to describe her literary product as historical, explaining, during the session moderated by the founder and president of the “Forum” Asma Siddiq Al-Mutawa, that what she presented is not a historical novel because it does not deal with historical figures as a focus of events.
She added: “I do not present in my works a history, nor do I deal with historical figures in them. My heroes are people of pure imagination, but the time of the novel in which the events take place is historical, as it is related to periods that witnessed qualitative shifts in the history of the region, as an attempt to form a historical awareness of the reader, so as not to A disconnect occurs between us and our history and our geography. It is important that there is an active communication between the past and the present, and we should not cancel the past in order to live the present.
Al-Kamali revealed that she has new ideas that she will engage in in her future work as a kind of challenge to herself to explore her capabilities, pointing out that her next novel will be set in Dubai and Al-Shindagha in the sixties, and it deals with the life of a woman writer, and is scheduled to present it at the next book fair.
The power of language politically and economically
from her side;
Writer Dr. Reem Bassiouni pointed out that the more the language is linked to political and economic power and depth, the more it flourishes and acquires a distinctive position, such as the English language and its power and power at the present time as a language used in all parts of the world, pointing out that the Arabic language was able to enter Syria, Egypt and other countries Because of the strength of the Islamic state in that period and its possession of economic and political power.
Bassiouni called for linking the Arabic language at the present time with a force that contributes to encouraging new generations to adhere to it, such as imposing it as a language that deals with government agencies or requiring mastery of it on everyone who joins work, criticizing the pride of some Arab youth for not mastering their mother tongue.
She added: “We have to teach our children the history and the history of colonialism so that they understand the attempts that have been made to obliterate the language, because obliterating the language facilitates the obliteration of identity, so that the colonial powers worked to strip the Arabic language of its value, and link mastery of foreign languages with advancement and distinguished social status.
We are not advocating not to learn foreign languages, but we are keen to respect the Arabic language as our identity.
«Children of the people»
Bassiouni touched on her novel "Children of the People .. The Mamluk Trilogy" published in three parts, explaining that it deals with the story and history of the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, which was built during the reign of Sultan Al-Nasir Hassan bin Muhammad bin Qalawun, and is considered one of the most prominent monuments in Islamic Cairo, and a masterpiece. Unique architecture in the world, noting that the mosque was not only a place of worship and prayer only, but it was also a school to teach reading and writing, and therefore the novel ends with the scene of the burning of the mosque as a symbol of science and knowledge, in a symbolic reference to entering Egypt in an era of darkness and retreat until it returned from new.
She also made clear that her future work will deal with the entry of the Portuguese into the region, but from the side of Egypt, and not from the Persian Gulf side, according to what author Reem Al Kamali covered in her novel "The Sultanate of Hormuz."
The participants in the symposium stressed the need to restore the prestige of the Arabic language and its place in society and among the new generations that began to abandon it.
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