Emirati creative people celebrate the late at the Culture Symposium in Dubai

Al-Owais ... Testimonies from a merchant whom the poem liked

Muhammad al-Murr mediates Sultan al-Amimi (right) and Ali Obaid al-Hamli during the session.

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The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library, the writer Muhammad Al-Murr, confirmed that the late Emirati poet Sultan bin Ali Al-Owais was one of the largest contributors to most of the cultural projects and humanitarian work that he knows, indicating that his council was spacious for all, and is distinguished by the intellectual and creative diversity between Poetry, narration, articles, music, and personalities from the various emirates of the country, citizens and residents, and he used to attain the attendance and their creativity.

Al-Murr added, during a dialogue session hosted by the Culture and Science Symposium, commemorating the late poet under the title: “Sultan Al Owais ... 21 years of renewed presence”: “The Al Owais Council was characterized by the handling of humanitarian, social and cultural matters in various parts of the Arab world, and whenever he traveled to An Arab country whose presence in this country is an open council for writers and intellectuals, and a poem is always recited, a new book is recognized, or musical pieces are played on the oud in rich sessions, as Al-Owais was open to different culture and literary schools.

One of the pioneers of the renaissance

For his part, Vice Chairman of the Culture and Science Symposium, Ali Obaid Al Hameli, who moderated the session, said, “The meeting is in love with one of the pioneers of the cultural and literary renaissance in the Emirates despite the passage of 21 years since his absence .. Sultan bin Ali Al Owais is not a businessman or just An intellectual or a good man only, but he is a group of human feelings that he knew around him », pointing out that Al Owais was born in 1925 in the city of Al-Hirah in Sharjah, but he lived most of his life in Sharjah, and died on the fourth of January 2000.

Al-Hamili described Al-Owais as “the poet of the sweet word, well-known businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian works, as he supported many cultural institutions, chiefly the Culture and Science Symposium, which he provided with a lot of material and moral support. He is the largest contributor to the construction of the symposium building, and supports its budget by He suspended a number of shares for the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Award.

He added that Al Owais received many honors during his life, most notably from the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, and the rulers of the Emirates, in addition to the honors he received from many Arab countries.

The late Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Foundation was founded, whose award annually honors a bunch of Arab writers, intellectuals and thinkers.

Al-Hamli stressed that "Sultan Al Owais is a captivating figure in all its aspects, especially in the poetic aspect that contains glimpses of creativity, transparency and human feelings."

Authentic Arab

The writer Muhammad Al-Murr shed light on a part of the biography of Sultan bin Ali Al-Owais, and narrated a number of stories that confirm his humanity and always support for good, as he used to help many writers and intellectuals in various parts of the Arab world.

He continued, “The late man was a believer in Arab unity and Arab rapprochement and optimistic about a bright future in issues of education and cultural and economic construction, and he understood new ideas. When the idea of ​​the Culture and Science Symposium and the Al Owais Foundation was proposed to him, he adopted the two projects with great hospitality, because many businessmen do not have this state of acceptance. The idea of ​​contributing to a charitable cultural institutional work, and doing good for them is limited to building mosques or digging wells, but for there to be an institution or a literary prize for the care of culture, that is difficult, and we do not deny that there are names that have a presence such as Juma Al Majid.

Al-Murr pointed to the importance of the cultural endowment in developing, supporting and activating the movement, noting that “the cultural endowment requires a permanent headquarters and a board of directors of personalities with a cultural and literary background who accepts everything that serves culture and thought. Sultan Al Owais has left huge sums of money as a cultural endowment to support cultural and creative work in the UAE and on The level of the Arab world ».

Al-Murr concluded his intervention with the well-known saying that Al-Owais is a merchant who is fascinated by poetry, an informed reader, and an exceptional poet, whose experience is compared to the experiences of great poets.

reading

In a reading of Sultan bin Ali Al Owais’s poetry, during the session, the Chairman of the Emirates Writers and Writers Union, Sultan Al Amimi, said that “Al Owais was not organizing Nabati poetry, but he had some simple texts, and regarding his experience in writing eloquent poetry, we find that his relationship with the poetic text is related to In itself, place and people, he does not have a dedication to a poetic project, and this is not a defect, but his poem is sometimes closer to a flash in which he suffices to depict an emotional state surrounding him about a person, situation or a certain emotional state.

He added, “Many of Al Owais's poems are short, but they contain an intensification of feelings, glow and love for life linked to his enjoyment of the living moment. His poetry collection documents in quite a few of his poems the history and place of writing the text, indicating the influence of the place and his love to retrieve the moment, such as the poems of Lebanon and the hadith of Riyadh, Beirut and O nights. Sham, and other poems are evidence of the place's ability to inspire and document it. ”

Al-Amimi pointed out to “the presence of women in many of Al-Owais’s poems and their influence on him. Many of his poems are titled with the names of women, and the plane was also a place for the birth of some poems (between heaven and earth), as if he chose that case for writing.”

He pointed out that the late man did not have a position on Nabati poetry, but he tasted good from it and supported it, as he loved the poetry of Saeed bin Ateeq al-Hamli, Ahmed bin Sultan bin Sulayem, and Rashid al-Khader, who was able to renew Nabati poetry and enter classical Arabic on the spoken.

Beirut .. Come back in the spring

At the end of the dialogue session at the Culture and Science Symposium in Dubai, the poet Mahmoud Nour recited a number of Sultan Al Owais's poems, including: “Venus”, “Lebanon”, “Science Symposium”, “My Youth” ... and “Beirut”, which He said in it:

Beirut, O heaven of Khilan, how are we?

To bend tears from filling the pupils

Come back in spring as you were thin

And forget the winter that has dropped the paper

Muhammad al-Murr:

"Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Majlis expanded for all ... and was distinguished by intellectual and creative diversity ... between poetry, narration and music."

Sultan Al-Amimi:

"The plane was the birthplace of some of Al Owais's poems (Between Heaven and Earth), as if he chose that case for writing."

Ali Obaid Al Hameli:

"A captivating personality in all its aspects, especially the poetic aspect that contains glimpses of creativity, transparency and humanity."

Supporting many cultural institutions, especially the Culture and Science Symposium.

Many of his poems are characterized by the intensification of feelings and love of life.

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