The role of women in preserving the Syrian heritage through living examples in the culture of Mezze

Damascus-Sana

The role of women in preserving the Syrian heritage through living examples of women who played this role in art, research and media are the main axes of the symposium held by the Arab Cultural Center in Mezze today.

At the beginning of the symposium held on the occasion of International Women's Day, plastic artist Najwa Al-Sharif shed light on her artistic experience with glass mosaics, through which she tried to introduce Arab threads in different colors into artistic works that can be used as exhibits or in home use such as vases, trays, and various utensils, referring to the role of women. Syrian women in the past and nowadays and standing by the man in building the family and society.

Researcher Ilham Mahfoud presented her journey with heritage since she received the curator of the Museum of Arabic Calligraphy in the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums. She also touched on two books that she published in this field, where she dealt with in the first the bimaristans among the Arabs with the heritage they bear in the field of medicine for our scientists over a period of 1,300 years, while she focused on the second On the Syrian icon, and proved in it to be the first icon in existence

It started from Syria and was present in the frescoes in the churches of Dura Europes, to achieve this icon a peculiarity represented by the Aleppian school, especially with Joseph the photographer.

The media seminar was moderated by Ilham Sultan, who talked about the role of women in preserving the heritage and the tangible and intangible heritage through time, starting with singing songs to the child, telling folk tales and stories, and daily education on the love and preservation of the ancestral heritage.

Bilal Ahmad