Damascus-SANA
Playing on terminology and promoting distorted concepts targeting our culture. Topics covered by the symposium held by the Arab Cultural Center in Kafr Sousa, in cooperation with the Idlib branch of the Arab Writers Union.
The symposium, which was attended by a number of researchers and writers, was entitled (Facing the schemes and terminology that target our culture) touched on the dangers of the Western cultural invasion on the Arab civilization and the existence of the nation and the need to combat the terminology that Zionism seeks to spread and ways to consolidate the national culture.
The first director of the informatics course, Iman Al-Hourani, provided a detailed explanation about the terms and other propositions that seek to harm our children and influence their national identity, providing examples of these attempts through the Internet and satellite TV programs, especially for children.
On the other hand, Ramez Mustafa, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Writers Union, spoke about the dangers of the terminology that the occupation entity uses and promotes, and serves what it aims at consolidating the loss of Palestine and distorting all the details related to it in terms of naming areas, cities and various cultural heritage.
Al-Arqam Al-Zoubi, a member of the Executive Office of the Writers Union, spoke about the need to work to enrich the national culture and find the necessary plans to protect it, especially as it is the basis of identity and the essence of belonging and the cultivation of the phenomenon of adherence to Arab values and the rejection of distorted terms and lack of adoption, especially those related to the conflict with the enemy.
Head of the Idlib branch of the Arab Writers Union, Muhammad Khaled al-Khidr, who moderated the symposium between the task of preserving the Arabic language and preserving culture from Westernization attempts, calling for activating the role of official cultural institutions so that they take a field character that enters into the daily details.
Researcher Bakour Al-Aroub, Coordinator of Public Opinion Research and Member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Writers Union, Rafea Al-Saadi, also made other interventions pointing to the danger of terminology published by Western and Arab media, which in essence contradict the foundations of civilization.
Shatha Hammoud
