“Sharjah for Narrator” confirms that documenting oral memory is a collective work

A trip with Jumaa bin Hamid and Rashid Al Shuq

The House of Culture tells the story of land and people with word, melody, melody, simple instrument, and popular knowledge.

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For the third day in a row, the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, in its twentieth edition, continues its activities, activities and programs on the virtual platform of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, where the various activities met with remarkable lively interaction by observers, and the evening activities for the second day were distributed on: A virtual seminar from Morocco on documenting oral heritage, Tales from the heritage of peoples, they said about the narrator (testimonies and experiences), a film from the memory of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, a biography of a narrator (Jumah bin Hamid), between the two covers of the book (highlighting the forum's publications), in addition to stories on the tongue of the children of the «young narrator» .

The speakers in the symposium focused on basic axes: documentation of Moroccan folklore between intrepidity and reluctance, documentation of folklore, examples from Morocco, and documentary films in the service of popular cultural heritage, Morocco as a model.

The head of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, Chairman of the Higher Committee of the Forum, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, said: “The Sharjah International Forum for Narrator and with it the story of heritage begins in Sharjah, and from it the first spark that lit a lantern illuminating the House of Culture, recounting the story of the land and people, with word, melody, melody and simple instrument, With popular knowledge and lofty traditions ».

Rashid Al Shawq

He is Rashid Obaid Rashid Al Shawq, from the Al Ali tribe, he was born in the Emirate of Sharjah in 1937, roughly, his childhood was normal, which he lived between a father, a mother, two brothers and three sisters.

In his early childhood, he was sent to the madrassa (Al-Mutawa), to study the Noble Qur’an, and learn some principles of arithmetic, reading and writing, and at this stage he finished the Holy Qur’an.

And it is narrated that Al-Shuq studied at the Mahmudiyah School for a short period of time, and it was one of the first regular schools that were concerned with teaching religious sciences, Islamic knowledge, jurisprudence, and Arabic literature.

He pursued the diving profession, like other young men of his time, due to the difficult living conditions, and he continued during a period during which he practiced many jobs, so he worked "Walid", then "Yelas" and then "Seib", after which he became responsible for preparing food on the ship, that is, as an assistant. Majdami », and Majdami is the assistant master (Nokhatha).

Al-Shuq ended his practical life by working for the Department of Culture and Information in the Heritage Department as a heritage reference that possesses a large sum of folk traditions, which he learned and derived from the environment in which he lived, including the values ​​and traditions of his fathers and grandfathers. And his awareness of it as he advanced his age, until he reached the stage of maturity in which he was able to restore what it represents.

Perhaps what the old sayings left by the longing is the greatest witness to that, as he emphasized the importance of folk tales, and their role in raising the child and expanding his imagination, teaching him judgment and sermons, and doing good and favor.

Al-Shuq passed away on September 26, 2000, and his death marked a new birth for the narrator and all narrators, and the popular knowledge drawn from what they stored in their chests. September 2001, as a permanent annual event honoring him and the campaign of the popular heritage, with only local and Gulf participation.

Jumaa bin Hamid

It is the biography of the narrator Jumah bin Hamid, who was born in Sharjah in the twenties of the last century and died in 2010 at the age of 85, and it is a biography with many and varied contributions to the world of stories, narratives, stories about the sea and diving, customs and traditions in the past, and political life in the Emirates, And others.

He is one of the encyclopedic narrators who became aware of the region’s heritage, preserved it with all their hearts, and played it through their many narratives about the country's history, and the types of trades and professions that the population used to occupy before the establishment of the state.

“It is the memory of Sharjah,” this is what Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Muslim said about him a time ago. He witnessed important changes and profound developments, which Sharjah went through in the 20th century, and the history of its men, who left their mark in the fields of politics, literature, culture, trade and economy.

He witnessed three important periods in the history of the Emirates: the ancient period, in which the traditional society and its patterns of life that it used to practice, and how those patterns gradually receded, with the emergence of oil and the beginning of change, as the middle period was formed in which society began to move to a life of urbanization, and the period The third is the period of the founding of the union, the stability of the state and the entry into the era of development, and he was able to convey, with keen awareness, the details of the two previous periods, and tell them for subsequent generations, and the Department of Culture in Sharjah documented his narratives and preserved them to be a historical document that contributes to preserving the features of the traditional life of society, present in The minds of subsequent generations.

An oral heritage

The seminar on documenting the oral heritage in Morocco constituted an important station and address on the second day of the forum in its 20th edition. Three researchers and specialists in Moroccan heritage participated in the symposium: Dr. Said Yakotin, the researcher Nasimi Mohamed, and Dr. Habib Nasiri.

In detail, Dr. Yahya Lotf Al-Abali said, This forum is so proud of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, and that all heritage professionals in the Arab world are proud of it. He is accustomed to the balanced presence of researchers from Morocco to enrich the forum's programs with their brothers from the UAE and Arabs in general in its previous sessions.

From the heritage of peoples

The audience and fans of the forum and the story followed through the social media platforms and media of the Sharjah Heritage Institute a variety of stories from the heritage of peoples, where the pioneers of social media platforms enjoyed and interacted with the stories presented by the narrator Abdul Rahim Al-Maqouri, from Morocco, the storyteller in the Salem cycle from Tunisia, and the Moroccan storyteller Hajia Al-Maqouri .

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