Damascus-Sana
World civilizations between conflict, competition and culture between openness and closed-mindedness The axes dealt with the intellectual symposium hosted by the Al-Assad National Library within the activities of the Ministry of Culture days under the title Dialogue of Civilizations or Conflict of Civilizations.
Researcher Muhammad Al-Hourani, who moderated the symposium, spoke in a statement to SANA about its importance to shed light on the conflicts and disputes taking place in the world and the importance of dialogue to find solutions that prevent countries from dominating each other.
In his turn, Dr. Khalaf al-Jarrad reviewed in his intervention the views of Arab researchers, writers and writers, and intellectual and political currents in the Arab world on the issue of the dialogue of civilizations.
Whereas Dr. Atef Al-Boutros explained in his intervention that there are divergent concepts between culture and civilization, and there is an intersection and overlap between the two concepts, pointing out that there are those who call for full openness to the world with its cultural, scientific and cognitive achievement, and there are those who call for applied closure, considering that both trends are the death of culture and the national and national identity. The solution is through interaction and cultural openness while preserving the peculiarities of the local identity.
Dr. Wael Barakat believed that the clash of civilizations still exists on the ground because dialogue means the convergence of human civilizations, peoples and societies, and what is really happening is the domination of one of the active forces in the world over others, reviewing the views of foreign writers who lived in Syria and spoke about the reflection of the civilization of the East on the West.
Shatha Hammoud