"Sharjah Book" The Arab and Greek cultural reality is discussed during an exhibition "Thessaloniki Book"
Thessaloniki, 18 May / WAM / The Sharjah Book Authority, within the program of activities “Sharjah is Guest of Honor at Thessaloniki International Book Fair” in Greece, organized intellectual and literary sessions that shed light on the Arab and Greek cultural scene.
A number of Emirati and Greek researchers and writers confirmed during the session “Civilizational Relations between Arabs and Greece,” in which Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, Chairman of the Sharjah Heritage Institute, Dr. Sultan Al-Amimi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Writers and Writers Union, and researcher and anthropologist Haris Miltiadis, member of the Greek Culture Foundation, participated… that historical relations The relationship between Greece and the Arabs goes back thousands of years and is evident in the volume of Arabic translations of Greek works. It is embodied in architecture, folk arts, astronomy, medicine and other sciences, literature and arts, pointing to a number of Greek words of Arabic origins and selections from the most prominent works of Arabic poetry and narrative that mentioned Greek philosophers and were influenced by them.
The “Contemporary Literature in the Emirates and Greece: Trends, Goals, and Future Challenges” session hosted the Emirati writer Hind Saif Al-Bar and the Greek writer Dimitris Sotakis, who discussed the trends in contemporary youth literature in both the Emirates and Greece and the general goals it seeks to achieve, in addition to highlighting the most prominent future challenges it will face in the future. The development the world is witnessing and ways to overcome these challenges.
During a session entitled “Presentation of the Poetry Book: The Sea and the Horizon in a Narrow Corridor,” with the participation of the Emirati poet Nujoom Al-Ghanim, the writer and translator Birsa Komotsi, and the Greek publisher and poet Yorgos Alisanoglou, the Sharjah Book Authority celebrated the publication of Nujoom Al-Ghanim’s collection of poetry, “The Sea and the Horizon in a Narrow Corridor,” in the Greek language and shed light on her experience. Poetics and the methods she used in the poems of her new collection.
In the session “Challenges of the Short Story in the Time of the Novel,” the Emirati writer, poet, and critic, Ali Al-Abdan, reviewed the reality of the Arab and Emirati short story in our present time, in which the novel has imposed its dominance over most literary genres and the existential conflict that the short story is waging to enhance its status and confirm its literary presence and the independence of its position with the aim of overcoming… On the challenges it faces under the dominance of the novel.
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