The new session celebrates Sudan as a guest of honor

38 countries in the Sharjah Narrator Forum

Abdulaziz Al Muslim and Aisha Al Shamsi during the disclosure of the details of the forum.

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Yesterday, the Sharjah Institute for Heritage revealed the details of the 21st session of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, which will be organized between 22 and 30 September in a number of locations in Sharjah.

The new session of the forum will be launched under the slogan "Animal Stories", and will include many discussion sessions, training workshops, and public events, in addition to an accompanying exhibition, an intellectual program, virtual events, and workshops for children, organized by 38 countries from around the world.

The Chairman of the Sharjah Institute for Heritage and Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, affirmed that “the Forum has become a well-established heritage tradition, and an occasion that is renewed annually, loaded with everything new and useful, thanks to the directives of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, to celebrate our distinguished heroes and campaign Folk heritage is one of human treasures, celebrating their knowledge, arts and experiences, and recalling their biographies and cultural stocks, which is the safety valve to preserve our ancient heritage from loss and extinction, through inventory, inventory, preservation and documentation.

Al-Musallam added during a press conference held the day before yesterday, at the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Complex: “The journey of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum sums up many years of serious cultural work, which has given heritage and its campaign the great prestige they deserve, and has become a pivotal event on the map of cultural work in the UAE. The Arab world, and the entire world, is awaited by narrators, folklore campaigners, researchers and those interested every year, and has made Sharjah a destination for narrators, experts and researchers from all over, and a pioneering model to follow in protecting human treasures and preserving heritage, and its experience is celebrated in international forums.

Al-Musallam explained that the new session of the forum is held under the slogan "Animal Stories", celebrating the rich, rich and diverse Emirati, Arab and human heritage, because of its great importance in expressing human issues that he showed through his popular imagination, and his art of story, which he conducted and expressed through the tongue. The animal and the logic of the bird, which resulted in a stock of famous relics and abandoned treasures, which the forum seeks to get to know its valuable gems and precious pearls.

honorary character

For her part, the Director of the Arab Heritage Center of the Institute, the General Coordinator of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, Aisha Al-Hussan Al Shamsi, said that the Republic of Sudan is the guest of honor for the Forum in this session, represented by Dr. Ahmed Abdel Rahim Nasr, the honorary personality honored this year, in appreciation of his contributions in the field of heritage. The Tunisian storyteller Abdulaziz Laroui will also be honored as a legal personality in celebration of his rich narrative heritage.

She added, "The new session of the forum includes seminars, lectures and sessions that review many important scientific approaches to animal stories, with the participation of a group of experts, researchers and writers from more than 38 countries."

This session will also witness the participation of a number of organizations, cultural centers, universities and institutes: UNESCO, ISESCO, ALECSO, Minya Marrakech Association for the Revival and Preservation of Morocco's Heritage, Shamma Muhammad Council for Thought and Knowledge, Encounters Association for Education and Cultures from Morocco, and Marrakesh School of Storytelling.

Several government agencies will also participate in the activities of this session, namely: Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Environment and Natural Reserves Authority, Emirates Heritage Club, and Fujairah Art Academy.

artists

A selection of Emirati and Arab artists will participate in the Sharjah Narrator Forum, most notably the artist Yahya Al-Fakhrani, Hala Fakher (Egypt), Muhammad Yassin (Bahrain), Sana Bakr Younis (Saudi Arabia), Dr. Habib Ghuloom, and Jassem Obaid (UAE).

Abdulaziz Al-Muslim: “The forum has become an event that narrators, folklore campaigners, researchers and interested people look forward to every year.”

On the 22nd of this year, the activities of the forum will be launched in a number of locations in Sharjah.

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