It was organized by Sharjah Culture, with the participation of 60 Egyptian creators
4 days full of poems in Luxor Festival
Participants in the festival praised the Poetry Houses initiative in the Arab world.
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After four days full of poems, the Luxor Festival for Arabic Poetry brought down the curtain on the activities of the seventh session, which was organized by the Department of Culture in Sharjah, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, with the participation of Egyptian poets, intellectuals, artists and writers.
The closing ceremony was organized the day before yesterday at the Misr Public Library in Luxor (the open theater on the “Kabbash” road), in the presence of the head of the Department of Culture in Sharjah, Abdullah bin Muhammad Al Owais, the president of Aswan University, Dr. Ayman Othman, and a large number of poets, intellectuals and interested people. .
Participants in the festival expressed their gratitude to His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, "always present in the Egyptian conscience", appreciating the role of His Highness in supporting the Egyptian and Arab cultural movement, pointing to what the Poetry Houses initiative represented in the Arab world since Its founding to this day is from the creative brilliance and glow of poetry and poets together.
During its four days, the festival opened its doors to creators coming from different cities of Egypt, such as Mansoura, Fayoum, Aswan, Marsa Matrouh, Cairo, and others, so that Luxor became the capital of poetry during the festival period, which was sufficient to witness a remarkable accumulation of more than 60 Egyptian creators.
and in the open theater adjacent to the “Al-Kabbash” road;
The corridor that connects the most important monuments in Luxor, and extends from the Karnak Temple to the Luxor Temple, the poem encircled those historical monuments to reflect a civilized image based on emotional harmony and spatial creativity.
The theater hosted a closing poetry evening, in which the poets Ahmed Qandil, Abd al-Sattar Selim, Izzat al-Tiri, and Masoud Shoman read, and it was moderated by the poet Mahmoud Mari.
And from what Al-Tiri read: Why do chrysanthemums resist me.. And my daisies desert.. If I start the poem, clothed with dew.. and rejoicing in the one who shook my heart, then it softens in the meadow of the elderberry.. The poem says: Fight a friendly war and find what I had. shall be condemned.”
Other poems moved between several poetic topics, and were filled with scenes and images.
The second day of the festival witnessed a momentum in the activities that began with a critical symposium titled "Transformations of the Arabic Poem", in the presence of Abdullah Al Owais and the Director of the Cultural Affairs Department at the Department of Culture in Sharjah, Muhammad Ibrahim Al Qaseer.
The critics: Dr. Youssef Nofal, Dr. Ahmed Afifi, and Dr. Abul-Yazid Al-Sharqawi spoke at the symposium, and it was moderated by Dr. Muhammad Abul-Fadl Badran.
The symposium discussed the factors of transformation and renewal in the Arabic poem over several periods of time, and highlighted that the poet is still in the same orbit as the Hebron seas, and shed light on renewed poets.
The third day of the festival witnessed a poetry evening, in which Hassan Saleh Khalafallah, Rehab Lutfi, Rashal Al-Fawal, Abdul Rahman Maklad and Muhammad Al-Motim participated.
The poems presented a special language based on amazing poetic metaphors, and centered around several topics.
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