"Emirates Literature" devoted an evening to readings of book stories
"My Little World" inspires children to persevere and challenge difficulties
A large number of children attended the evening and obtained a copy of "My Little World".
Photography: Patrick Castillo
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A special evening dedicated by the "Emirates Airline Festival of Literature" to celebrate the group of stories directed at children, entitled "My Little World" by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, as part of the weekend activities that the «Intercontinental Dubai Hotel» attracted Festival City ».
The children listened to readings in a number of the book's stories, experiencing inspiring judgments and experiences that call for action, challenging difficulties, transforming challenges into opportunities for success, and the children’s interaction with the implications of the stories presented in the evening.
The CEO and member of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Literature Foundation, Isabel Abu Alhoul, Director of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Ahlam Blocky, provided distinguished readings of the stories included in the book in both Arabic and English. At the end of the event, children were given copies of the book "My Little World". .
"My Little World" group includes five stories in which His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum deals with situations that affected the childhood of His Highness, which was full of challenge and determination, and contributed in all of them to drawing the features of his personality, forming his idea and his vision, recalling through which experiences that fill the memory with images and impressions stimulating on Learn important skills, and to be adventurous, discover, learn and acquire new knowledge.
Amid the intense presence of “literature” lovers, the evening crowd enjoyed the readings of the new story collection. Ahlam Blocky initiated the reading of the story “My Friend the Lion”, in Arabic, in which His Highness recalled that summer night he spent on the farm when he opened his eyes to see a lion in his room And he is the lion who brought him up since he was a young cubs, and how he tried in several ways to get him out of the room, to summarize his highness through it how to deal with some of the challenges facing humans, the best of which are sometimes the easiest.
Isabelle Abu Al-Houl read the story "Who is like you, my mother", in English, through which His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum talks about the feelings of motherhood and the tenderness of the mother by recalling the position of His Highness’s childhood when he found a young deer whose mother abandoned him in the desert and carried it To his mother who took care of him until he became a strong young deer, asking his Highness at the end of the story: “Who is like you, mom?
Who looks like you, mom? ».
On the experience of launching the book "My Little World" with its five stories during the festival, its director Ahlam Al-Bulooki said, “This event carries great significance for the festival, given its focus on children's literature and its permanent presence in the festival’s activities, as well as a unique symbolism for us and children in view of the lessons conveyed by His Highness’s book Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, from which they will learn a lot of life lessons, ”stressing,“ We decided that this session should be dedicated to children and to read the stories of His Highness in an interactive way. The aim was to highlight the five stories included in the group, which His Highness chose to dedicate to all children in the UAE, the Arab world and the world. Of course, we all know that His Highness’s interest in books, reading and writing is old and established, and we are proud and honored today to deliver his message, even if in a simple way, by reading his stories to children during this event of the festival, and we are very happy with the interaction we noticed before them, and which we touched in their answers to the various questions Which was raised about the details of the story (My Friend Al-Assad) and (Who Looks Like You, Mother) ».
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Al-Blocky Dreams: “The stories of the book (My Little World) are symbolic and unique, and bear many lessons, and a summary of experiences and ideas in a simple way, and they call for learning from the lessons of life."
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