"Arabic poetry from stability to transformation" Seminar at the Palace of Culture in Sharjah
Sharjah, 9 January / WAM / The intellectual symposium accompanying the 21st Sharjah Arab Poetry Festival, which was held today at the Culture Palace in Sharjah, discussed a striking critical topic under the title “Arabic Poetry from Stability to Transformation.”
In two sessions, the researchers and scholars were interested in analyzing the history of the emergence and development of Arabic poetry, stressing that it remained capable of making a real cultural difference throughout the ages and cultures and was a strong foundation for the development of literature and the development of human awareness. They also revealed the hidden secrets of poetry, which each time revealed the existence of countless treasures of knowledge. There are many areas of research from which criticism flows and never stops.
In the first session, researcher Dr. Muhammad Abu Al-Shawareb presented a research paper entitled “The Primacy of Arabic Poetry,” reviewing the history of the poem’s origins and the hypotheses related to it, while researcher Dr. Sultan Zaghloul presented a research paper entitled “Poetic Intertextuality between the Ancient and the Modern,” and chose to analyze the influence of the ancient text on poetic experiences. Contemporaryity and the role of history in paving the way for the theory of intertextuality.
In his research paper entitled “Symbol and the Transformation of Connotations,” Dr. Ould Matali Lamrabet addressed one of the most important pillars of poetry, which is connotation and the use of symbols related to it, the effectiveness of displacement, ambiguity, paradox, and others.
In the second session, Dr. Abdullah Al-Khudair presented a paper entitled “Textual Thresholds from Tradition to Renewal,” and Dr. Iman Essam Khalaf spoke about “The Poem and Transformations in the Media of Publishing and Receiving.”
Last night, the Palace of Culture in Sharjah hosted the third evening of the Sharjah Arab Poetry Festival in its twenty-first session, with the participation of a group of poets from the Arab world, in the presence of His Excellency Abdullah bin Muhammad Al Owais, Head of the Sharjah Department of Culture, Muhammad Ibrahim Al Qasir, Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs in the Department, and the poet Muhammad Al Buraiki, Director of the House of Culture. Poetry and a large audience of Emirati and Arab poets, intellectuals, and academics.
The conclusion witnessed a large attendance at the signing ceremony of the poetry collection of the poet Hussein Al-Abdullah from Syria, which was titled “An Ambassador from My Mother’s Heart.”
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