Latifa bint Mohammed directed the Dubai Culture team to work on the project

"Faces of Hatta" documents the history of the region with the language of its people

• Latifa Bint Mohammed recently visited Hatta and listened to the accounts of a group of people in the region about its ancient history.

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Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Culture and Arts Authority in Dubai (Dubai Culture), has directed work on the “Faces of Hatta” documentary project, which aims to record the oral history of the Hatta region and its cultural heritage, and to preserve and transmit it across generations through the stories it stores. Memory of the witnesses of the era from the people of this region.

Her Highness had recently visited the Hatta region. During her visit, she met with a group of people in the area and listened to their stories about the region’s past and its ancient history. On this basis, Her Highness directed the Dubai Culture team to work on the project.

“Faces of Hatta” will be concerned with documenting stories told by a group of Hatta people whose memory is an important historical reference, monitoring historical events and lifestyle in the past, and the role of women in Hatta society, to preserve the region’s cultural, material and moral heritage for future generations, through a procedure Audio and video dialogues, classified and reserved, to enrich the cultural and historical content of the Emirate of Dubai.

A broad spectrum

In implementation of the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Culture will work in the project to form a detailed picture of the cultural heritage of the Hatta region, through a wide group of people who recount their daily experiences, life in this region, its culture and heritage and the history of its location Geographer.

The project covers a wide range of topics that include documenting the history of the Hatta Heritage Village: date palm farms, the irrigation system “aflaj”, the role of women in the Hatta community, the traditional cuisine of the region, traditional decorations and clothing, traditional ceremonies, and other matters that are among the peculiarities of Hatta's wealthy community. With its historical and heritage vocabulary.

Wealthy stock

Mona Faisal Al Gurg, Director of Museums Department at Dubai Culture, said about the importance of the project: “The stories of the people of Hatta are an important source for writing the rich history of this region. The Hatta community has a stockpile of historical events with their details, heritage and popular heritage in all its varieties and forms.”

She added: “The history of the Hatta region is rich and full of the exploits of society and its culture, and deserves to be preserved and passed on from generation to generation.

This would contribute to enhancing the cultural content of the Emirate of Dubai, as well as spreading awareness of Emirati customs and traditions.

Hence, the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa to launch the Hatta Faces Documentary Project, this project that is consistent with our mission to preserve and celebrate the Emirati heritage, came as a source and reference for future generations.

The Director of Museums Department at Dubai Culture explained: “The history of the Hatta region, its lifestyles and stages of development before and after the establishment of the Union will be documented. A plan has been developed to implement the project in stages, as we have actually started the first phase of it, through a series of meetings and interviews with A group of the people of the region ».

Home memory

Mona Faisal Al Gurg, Director of Museums Department at Dubai Culture, affirmed that the authority has “confidence that the outputs of this documentary project will have a positive and important impact on developing historical and cultural content, which is a source for researchers and historians, through the spoken narrations of contemporary contemporary who consider the memory and history of the homeland.” ».

And that "the stories of the people of Hatta constitute an important source for writing the rich history of this region."

• Recording the oral history with stories that are stored in the memory of the witnesses of the time from the people of the region.

• Audio and video dialogues, classified and reserved, to enrich the cultural and historical content of the Emirate of Dubai.

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