Under the patronage of the Ruler of Sharjah ... the launch of the activities of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum in its "20th" edition

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the virtual activities of the twentieth edition of the Sharjah International Narrative Forum were launched today under the slogan "Celebrating the Twenty".

The three-day event organized by the Sharjah Heritage Institute this year is characterized by a combination of seminars, cultural cafes and special events that will be broadcast on the Institute’s virtual platform on social media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

The virtual opening ceremony included a speech by His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, President of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, the presentation of a short documentary film documenting the course of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum over twenty years, a speech by the honorable character Dr. Ani Tohme Thabit from Lebanon and honoring the narrators, in addition to a virtual opening session on living human treasures presented by Dr. Ahmed Esconte is an expert on intangible cultural heritage at UNESCO.

The head of the Supreme Organizing Committee, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam said: With the advent of September every year, memories turn out, ideas turn up, longing and nostalgia for the suns, flags and visionary narrators who enriched our experiences with their rich popular knowledge on a date with the Sharjah International Narrator’s Forum, which has become a well-established heritage tradition and an occasion that is renewed annually. It is loaded with all 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 exceptional wealth and the campaign of the popular heritage of human treasures and to celebrate their knowledge, arts and experiences, and to remember their biographies and their rich cultural stock, which is the safety valve for preserving our ancient heritage from loss and extinction through Inventory, inventory, preservation and documentation.

He added that the forum is an international cultural event that looks forward to learning about the rich and inspiring experiences at the Arab and international levels, as the march of the Sharjah International Forum summarizes the narrator to many years of serious cultural work that has taken on the heritage and carried it the great position they deserve and has become a pivotal event on the map of cultural work in the UAE, the Arab world and the world. Collect.

For her part, the general coordinator of the forum, Aisha Al-Hussan Al-Shamsi, said: In this session of the forum, under the slogan "Celebrating the Twenty," new topics will be selected that are comprehensive and diverse, namely: the arts of the narrator, Juha Al-Arabi, biographies, epics, fairy tales and One Thousand and One Nights.

She explained that these titles were based on their basis, structure and theme on narrators, popular knowledge and oral transmission before they became written and documented texts, and they in fact represent a long and original human heritage in which the human being expressed from the beginning about symbols, heroes and stories in which myth and myths were mixed with imagination and history, reflecting the images of life. Ancient and represents the human being to his culture and heritage.

The Lebanese Republic is the guest of honor of the twentieth session of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, where the forum used to select an honorary figure who represents the country as the guest of honor and is honored to celebrate the entirety of her work and contributions in the field of cultural heritage, and this year Dr. Ani Tohme Thabet from Lebanon was chosen because of her She is a professor of sociology and anthropology at Saint Joseph University in Beirut and an expert in "UNESCO" in the field of intangible cultural heritage, she has a prominent and pivotal role in preserving and preserving heritage.

Dr. Ani Tohme thanked and appreciated His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah for his interest in culture and all its addresses and branches, and for his generous and unlimited support for intellectuals, the people of Rawa, and researchers in tangible and intangible heritage. She also extended her thanks to the Sharjah Heritage Institute, represented by its Chairman, HE Dr. Abdul Dear Muslim, for inviting and honoring him and for choosing Lebanon as the guest of honor in this edition of the event.

During the past years, the Sharjah Heritage Institute has honored more than a hundred male and female narrators in the forum's successive sessions, including those with inherited skills and narrators specialized in various fields of oral heritage.

The Sharjah Heritage Institute this year also honored the most important oral narrators from the intangible heritage campaign, namely Saif Muhammad Saif al-Qaraa al-Nuaimi, Aisha Abdullah Muhammad al-Naqbi, Ali Muhammad Ali Chun al-Dhahuri, Obaid Rashid Obaid Ghadeer al-Kutbi, Muhammad Saeed Muhammad al-Qaidi, Muhammad Hamdan Al-Hantoubi Al-Naqbi, Saif Khalifa Rashid bin Samha Al Shamsi and Dr. Abdul Sattar Al-Azzawi, in appreciation of their contributions to preserving and publishing oral narratives.

This year's activities of the forum include virtual sessions about living human treasures, a virtual seminar from Morocco on documenting the oral heritage, in addition to a seminar on documenting cultural heritage in the United Arab Emirates, and cultural café sessions about the narrator’s journey, presenting paragraphs entitled "Stories from the Peoples' Heritage", and paragraphs entitled "They said about the narrator - testimonies and experiences" in addition to presenting films related to the narrator's journey and presenting paragraphs entitled "Biography of a Narrator" and "Between the Books of a Book". The activities will be concluded with a speech by His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Muslim, President of the Institute, and the recommendations of the forum will be read by Aisha Al-Hussan Al-Shamsi, General Coordinator of the Forum .

For his part, Dr. Ahmed Esconte, an expert on intangible cultural heritage at UNESCO, valued the efforts of the Sharjah Institute for Heritage in the field of cultural heritage and awareness of the importance of safeguarding intangible heritage, which brought this event to a global level and awareness of the importance of intangible heritage.

Dr. Mona Bounamah, Director of the Content and Publishing Department at the Sharjah Heritage Institute, said that the café this year raises new issues that celebrate the narrators and their popular knowledge that they deposited in their publications before they turn into written books, in line with the direction of the forum, which works to create everything new to enrich the cultural scene and carry out the desired goal And beautiful.

Today, Al-Rawi Cultural Cafe hosted a group of researchers and scholars who offered various approaches that celebrated the narrators, as Aisha Al-Hussan began by reviewing the forum's march and its stations over twenty years, and Dr. Salem Al-Tunaiji talked about the biography of the narrator Rashid bin Abdullah Al-Mahyan .. While Dr. Hamad bin Sarai discussed the experience of the late researcher Abdel-Jalil Al-Saad, the keeper of memory in the field of heritage documentation. Dr. Samira Amboaza reviewed a set of Algerian folk stories that were transmitted by narrators and the campaign of the popular heritage in Algeria.

The evening activities include the presentation of the paragraph "Tales from the Heritage of the Peoples" and the paragraph "They said about the narrator - testimonies and experiences", a film about the narrator's journey, the presentation of the biography of the narrator "Rashid Al-Shawq - Sharjah Notebook" and between the two covers of the book "Shedding light on the Forum's publications."

The second day of the forum will witness various activities by presenting a wide range of virtual cultural heritage activities, including the presentation of a virtual seminar from Morocco on documenting oral heritage, the paragraph “Tales from the Heritage of Peoples,” and “They said about the narrator” and the presentation of a short film from the memory of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum. And "Tales from the Heritage of the Peoples" and the paragraph "Biography of a Narrator - Jumah Bin Hamid" and "Between the two covers of the book - shedding light on the publications of the forum."

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