"Together we sing" .. An Arabic inscription for children on the stone of alienation in Turkey

Khalil Mabrouk - Istanbul

The two children, Sarah Yildiz and Al-Tahan, exchanged Arabic and Turkish words in weaving a homogeneous rhythm of a song of a valuable nature. The two children gifted it to the mother whose fulfillment is not known to be a difference of color, language, race, or religion.

Al-Tahhan presented her gift in the Turkish language, even though she was only nine years old, while her fellow Yildiz, 12, created a singing Arabic tongue.

The two girls, Miller Wildes, express a typical case for the search for integration and homogeneity, whose preoccupation occupies a large part of the thinking of Arab families residing in Turkey, while many of the heads of these families seek to enhance the capabilities of their children to do so in Turkish society early in their lives.

In this context, the “Qalam” Academy for Children launched a campaign “Together We Sing” with the aim of helping children exchange cultural activities, so that the Arab child sings in the Turkish language, and Turkish children present their songs in Arabic.

The campaign organizers say that it aims to strengthen the bonds of love and friendship and reduce the manifestations of bullying and racism between children, as they seek to achieve integration between the children of Arab expatriates in Turkey and Turkish children, and reduce negative behavior, such as isolation, sparring and quarrels in society and school.

Discover the talents of children
According to Dr. Ahmed El-Sayed, the campaign emerged as the first initiative of the “Qalam Studio” of the Qalam Educational Educational Academy in Istanbul, explaining that the academy is looking to highlight the positive values ​​and concepts shared in the Arab and Turkish societies in the content of children's songs such as the status of the father, the role of the school and the value of mothers.

The campaign also seeks to discover the talents of children in the field of singing and sound, and raise their confidence in themselves, and the manufacture of rising stars, and work to codify them and provide a structure to embrace them.

And Mr. - who is the director and founder of the Kalam Academy - told Al Jazeera Net that the campaign "Together We Sing" requires those who want to participate to achieve standards that are consistent with those goals, such as that the contestants must be children between the ages of 7 and 12 years, and that the participant be well-sounded, and proficient in both the Arabic and Turkish languages. To send a recorded audio clip to the studio to evaluate its performance.

Arabic models
The idea of ​​the campaign “Together We Sing” was born on the Turkish Teacher's Day, when the child Abdul Rahman Al-Sayyid sang his teacher in the perfect Turkish language, so the teacher presented the song to the school family, which was amazed by the mastery of the Arab child singing in Turkish.

Then the school displayed the child's song on the screen at the official school ceremony, and the children and the audience interacted with it in a big way, and it left a very rapid impact between the Turkish teachers and students.

According to the master, the Turkish school’s interaction with the Arab child’s song contributed to bringing the children closer together, and the teachers who liked the sound and performance won praise, and it was reflected in the entire school atmosphere.

These impressions created the atmosphere for the "Qalam Academy" to launch its campaign that offers many Arab examples of Turkish society from the gate of joint singing, and the artistic orientations of the Academy and its possession of the private studio contributed to this, in addition to the directions of its owner, who is the vocalist, composer, poet and writer.

Collaboration window
In the "Together We Sing" campaign, children send samples of their voices to the Qalam Academy, which chooses who meets the specifications of participation, and sends him a song of his own with words, melody, and musical distribution to keep them nicely.

The child is then invited to the studio for training, experimentation and training, and the day of filming is determined with the signing of a pledge that his guardian will agree to photograph the song and publish it in the Qalam Studio channel on YouTube.

The initiative opens a participatory cooperation window with the community in several ways. It calls on parents and Arabs in Turkey to spread the products of children on their accounts in social media tools, and opens the door to receive support from various institutions to cover the expenses of photography, montage, artwork and technology, honoring the participating children, and holding the closing ceremony, as well as cooperating With the media in promoting the initiative and supporting its activities.

Mr. indicates that the campaign received a great reaction from the Arab families community in Turkey, explaining that the academy seeks to build partnerships and sponsorships for the campaign, and that a number of children contacted the academy to participate in the campaign from outside Turkey, especially from Syria and Egypt.