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It is no longer new that the Syrian culture has been preserving its roots, burning throughout the ten years of the life of a fierce global terrorist war that targeted people and stones, and it continued to give despite all the challenges, on top of which is the Corona pandemic. Hypothetical to face the Corona pandemic.
As the plastic forums and exhibitions did not stop, the stakes and galleries continued to embrace theatrical, cinematic, dancer and musical performances, and poets and writers continued to flock to the pulpits to deliver their productions. The Syrian and private publishing houses continued to print what the book slides provide, and it was remarkable that the participation of individual and civil initiatives in the cultural scene, and more than that, continued Syrian creators. He won international awards. However, the black point this year was the departure of many creative people from our world.
The following are the most prominent stations of Syrian culture in 2020.
25_1 The departure of the researcher, Dr. Muhammad Bashir Zuhdi, aged 93.
5_2 Announcing the winners of the Fakhri Al-Baroudi Prize for Young Historians for the year 2019.
6_2 Researcher Munir Kayyal, a lover of Damascus, departs from it, leaving more than thirty books around it.
11_2 The Higher Institute of Music launches its first concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven.
11_2 The Cinema Foundation graduates the fourth and second batches of diploma students from Child Cinema.
17_2 The departure of the poet and film critic Bandar Abdel-Hamid.
26_2 The passing of the musician, Saeed Youssef, at the age of 73.
29_2 Death is absent by the artist Marwan Kanaou, at the age of 74 years.
1_3 The departure of the researcher and historian Dr. Suhail Zakar, at the age of 84.
2_3 Death: The great film director Raymond Boutros is absent at the age of 70.
5_3 The start of the second Damascus Countryside Cultural Festival.
8_3 Syria International Cartoon Exhibition honors the late Muhammad al-Maghout in its 16th edition.
11_3 Plastic art exhibition of ten Syrian women artists in Hama.
17_3 Film director Issam Suleiman passed away, aged 64.
23_3 Within a plan to publish remote reading, the Book Authority will intensify the publication of electronic books.
25_3 The Cinema Foundation launches the (Cinema in your Home) initiative to view its latest films.
26_3 The departure of the composer Hussein Zahra, the creator of dozens of beautiful songs.
28_3 Syria wins the Eurodram award from the European Drama Network for the year 2020.
1_4 Launching the award for the best novel about human solidarity.
5_4 The writer Hassan Sami Yusef announces a competition for a short story for young people.
10_4 The artist Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Qasim passed away, at the age of 78.
10_4 The Adult Education Directorate at the Ministry of Culture launches a distance education initiative.
15_4 The Ministry of Culture launches the virtual plastic art exhibition for its holdings of artworks.
16_4 The Theater and Music Directorate broadcasts its theatrical performances and artistic activities archive on its official page.
22_4 Announcing the winners of the Sulaiman Al-Issa Literary Competition for Children.
22_4 Launching the Virtual Museum of Syrian Cultural Heritage.
5-1 The musician Asaad Khoury passed away, at the age of 67.
14_5 Departure of the writer and playwright Riad Esmat.
20_5 The departure of the researcher, Dr. Mahmoud Haretani, one of the most important pioneers of contemporary archaeological and heritage research.
21_5 The departure of the artist, Mamoun El Farkh, due to a heart attack.
23_5 Syrian poets win three places in the International Competition, Al-Quds Al-Free for Eloquent Poetry.
23_5 The departure of the poet, Doctor Shaker Al Mutlaq, after a bus journey with poetry and life.
27_5 Announcing the results of Rabia’s Poetry Competition for 2020.
3_6 Harvest painting Syria wins bronze in an international competition for children's drawings.
4_6 The Culture Festival in Your Home opens its musical evenings with patriotic songs and a Syrian identity.
15_6 The start of the activities of the First Houran Folklore Festival in Daraa.
25_6 Film screenings for the Seventh Youth Film Festival and short films start in Dar Al-Assad.
28-6 The teachers of the Arab Institute of Music in Tartous inaugurate its second musical forum.
30_6 The Young Syrian Feather presents various forms of creativity to the audience of the annual Spring Fair.
9_7 The Syrian film Niqab Al Soul wins three international awards in Italy.
10_7 Various cultural and artistic events within the second Hama Cultural Festival.
16_7 Death: The writer, playwright and musician Mohamed Berri Al-Awani is absent at the age of 72.
25_7 Death is missing Marwan Mahfouz, the owner of the Golden Throat .. The Ministries of Culture and Information and the Artists Syndicate mourn Syria's righteous friend.
2_8 The departure of the plastic artist Asim Zakaria.
9_8 The movie on the first day of the debut work of Lotus Masoud wins two prizes for the best short film and direction at a film festival in Prague.
9_8 The departure of the artist, Tony Moussa, at the age of 66.
10_8 Ihssan Entebbe, Iskandar Luqa and Wahb Roumieh are the winners of the State Prize for the year 2020.
13_8 Director and editor Marwan Al-Akkawi ... departure after a busy cinematic career.
13_8 The departure of the artist Ali Madarati, at the age of 81 years.
16_8 The departure of the journalist and poet Tawfiq Al-Andani.
17_8 The departure of the plastic artist, Izz al-Din Hemat, a lover of the Damascene environment and the Syrian nature.
22_8 The departure of the Furati poet Abdel Nasser Al-Hamad, aged 62.
26_8 The plastic art competition for young artists at the National Center for Visual Arts.
31_8 A Syrian expatriate artist wins a competition to choose a memorial design for a Canadian square.
4_9 International plastic artist Sebhan Adam launches an annual art prize to encourage creative talent.
7_9 The National Museum Garden hosts the eighth oil painting forum (Syria, the Bridge of Love).
8_9 Kitab Al-Raqqa branch honors the winners of the poetry and story competition for the years 2019 and 2020.
9-10 Death: The researcher and critic Muhammad Ratib Al-Hallaq is absent at the age of 78.
15_9 Completion of rehabilitation and restoration works of Al-Hosn Castle.
16_9 Thirty artists in the virtual art forum of Mustafa Ali Gallery.
23_9 The Jerusalem Guard series gets the most important centers in the audience's referendum for an Egyptian website.
28_9 The Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries destroy the ancient hills in the Balikh Basin in Raqqa.
9-29 overseeing the neighborhoods of Damascus ... a sculpture of a horse with the spirit of Syria drinking from its water.
29_9 Fine Artist Bassam Jabili .. A departure that folds an artistic career full of creativity.
29_9 The two novelists Rawaa Sunbul and Hassan Al-Judy won the second and third places in the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize for Children's Literature.
29_9 Plastic artist Mohamed Deeb Al-Masry goes silently.
9-30 The Cinema Foundation launches two competitions for the long and short fiction films and a workshop for writing texts.
3_10 You are Wounded .. A movie that brings the TV Production Directorate back to the seventh art.
4_10 An open-air cinema demonstration will return to the public after an absence.
5_10 The tenth meeting of the very short story in Tartous celebrates the outputs of 22 writers.
11_10 Thirty Syrian artists at the Picasso World Fair in Malaga, Spain.
11_10 The Citadel Festival for Student Cinema presents 42 films by students from 15 Arab and foreign countries.
12_10 The departure of the artist Abdullah Khan, one of the symbols of the plastic movement in Homs.
13_10 The first amateur photography forum in Aleppo.
15_10 The shooting of a film for the last of life begins, a new production for the Radio and Television Corporation about the heroics of our valiant army.
20_10 Departure of the writer and researcher Muhammad Walid Al-Jallad, at the age of 85.
25_10 Antiquities and museums The archaeological site of Tell Baidar in Hasaka, which dates back to the third millennium BC, was restored.
26_10 The departure of the artist Nabil Halawani, following a struggle with illness.
30_10 Writer Iman Sharbati wins first prize for her novel, Caroline, in the Damascus Branch of the Writers Union.
3_11 The first electronic plastic art exhibition ... a new cultural activity for the Syrian community in Ukraine.
3_11 The Tarabak Gold Festival, Al Hasakeh, celebrates the Syrian heritage and creativity.
4_11 Road Art Forum in Damascus foundations for an interactive and aesthetic case.
10_11 Syria wins the award (Ichrome Sharjah) through the restoration project of Al-Saqatiya archaeological market in the old city of Aleppo.
10_11 Opening of the seventh Abu Tammam poetry festival in the cultural city of Daraa.
11_11 The launch of the activities of the first Golan Heritage Festival in Kenitra.
12_11 Signing of a memorandum of understanding between Syria and Russia to restore the Arc de Triomphe in Palmyra.
13_11 Dark Clouds by director Ayman Zidan wins the Jerusalem Prize at the Alexandria Film Festival.
15_11 Sixth Folklore Festival in Sweida.
16_11 Omar Abu Risha Festival in Aleppo celebrates the late poet Omar Abu Qus.
18_11 Watan Document Foundation honors the winners of (This is My Story 2020) award at the Al-Assad National Library.
18_11 The departure of the violinist and musician Hisham Al-Hamwi.
19_11 The Writers' Organization announces the winners of its literary prizes for the year 2020.
19_11 Beginning of the Latakia Heritage Festival.
23_11 The launch of the celebration of Syrian Culture Days (My Culture ... My Identity) at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts .. Various activities on creativity and heritage.
23_11 The beginning of the first session of the writer Hanna Minah Forum for novelistic creativity at Dar Al-Assad in Lattakia.
23_11 Launch of the second forum for plastic art in Deir Ezzor.
25_11 An exhibition of recovered Syrian antiquities at the National Museum of Damascus.
25_11 Singer and musician Hassan Omrani passed away, aged 52.
26_11 Archaeological discoveries at a site in Sweida.
26_11 Launch of the Said Hamza II Forum for Plastic Art in the Culture of Sweida.
30_11 The start of the second Maghout theater festival at Dar Al-Assad for Culture in Hama.
2_12 The celebration of the National Day for the Encouragement of Reading starts from Homs with reading segments and poetry debates.
6_12 Death The great director, Alaeddin Kokesh, is absent at the age of 78.
7_12 War Travelers wins two awards for best actor and screenplay at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
10_12 The official special screening of the movie The Morning Star at the Kennedy Destroyer Cinema.
10_12 The Ministry of Culture awards the State Incentive Prize for the year 2020 to Munir Khalaf, Misak Pagboudrian and Adel Daoud.
10_12 New archaeological discoveries at the Temple of Zeus in the town of Qanawat, Sweida.
12_12 The Arab Music Festival begins in Homs.
13_12 The Syrian Plastic Art Days 2020 celebrates contemporary Syrian artistic structures.
14_12 Contemporary artistic visions of 150 artists at the Autumn Fair 2020.
14_12 Mujib Dawood Forum for Plastic Art, Tartous.
15_12 Syrian musicians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Higher Institute of Music.
16_12 My land is gold ... an initiative of the Ministry of Culture within the afforestation campaign to reforest lands affected by fires.
17_12 The Syrian Trust for Development wins the rank of international arbitrator at UNESCO.
17_12 The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences grants its membership to Dr. Thaer Zainuddin.
21_12 The activities of the traditional Furati song festival start in Deir Ezzor.
21_12 Death folds the career of the writer Ghazi Mukhtar Tulaimat at the age of 85 years.
21_12 The eighth Al-Hasakah Theater Festival opens its activities with the display of Mirrors of Chekhov.
23_12: The late Fourati calligrapher Mahmoud Hassan, at the age of 71 years.
Samer Al Shoghry
