Damascus-SANA
On the fortieth anniversary of the uprising of parents in the occupied Syrian Golan in rejection of the Zionist identity, and within the cultural week hosted by Al-Midan Cultural, Ahmed Al-Hassan gave a lecture entitled “The Intangible Heritage of the Golan in Confronting the Zionist Counterfeiting.”
Al-Hassan pointed to the importance of the folklore as an essential part of the national identity and works to revive the national memory and rooted patriotism.
He indicated that the folklore consists of two oral and sensory material traditions, explaining that the heritage material is transmitted through individuals and groups orally and frequently.
The importance of folklore, according to Al-Hassan, lies in getting to know popular life in its spiritual and material aspects, and it can be studied to benefit from the extent of change in the life of a community.
He pointed out that the popular heritage in the occupied Syrian Golan still constitutes a large part of the collective memory, and its importance comes by linking the younger generations to their heritage and thwarting the allegations of the Zionist enemy that the old are dying and the young are forgotten.
The lecture was followed by the screening of a film entitled Folk Song in the Golan.
It is noteworthy that Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Hassan, born in the village of Scovia in the occupied Golan in 1966, has published many books concerned with the popular heritage and the Golan. He won the award for the best published book on the Golan in the Golan Literary Creativity Competition in 2006.
Mays Al Ani
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