Homs-Sana
Because reading is the food of the mind and the path to the advancement of nations, the Cultural Center in Homs, in cooperation with the Life Skills Team, the Directorate of Education and the Spring Association, hosted the “Reading Life” event, which was launched by the teacher Qamar Saad from the Martyr Radwan Tayra School in the town of Qutina, thanks to which three girls participated in the Arab Reading Challenge competition advanced positions at the level of Homs Governorate.
The event, which was attended by dozens of children, included various artistic performances of poetry, zajal, playing and theatrical performance, all of which converged at one point that reading is the living memory of humanity and thanks to it we build a generation armed with science, knowledge and culture.
During the event, the eight-year-old girls, Julia Mikhael, who won first place in the Arab Reading Challenge, and Sarah Al-Marei and Marlia Wahba from the fourth grade, who won the best twenty reciters in the governorate, were honored.
Regarding the event, Saba Wassouf, head of the life skills team in the Homs Culture Directorate, explained in an interview with SANA that the aim of the initiative is to highlight the initiative to be a launchpad for similar initiatives in Homs governorate and to create a generation of young readers to become big readers in the near future, contributing to the preservation of our classical language on the one hand. And motivating them to dare to participate in cultural activities that illuminate our bright intellectual and civilizational heritage.
The teacher, Qamar Saad, founder of the initiative, indicated that she launched the initiative to spread reading, based on the reading challenge, through which she noticed a growth in children's thinking, culture and understanding of things and life.
She explained that the initiative started in an electronic way by training school children to read on their own by publishing their reading on social media and forming a team of readers, abstracts of ideas and writers of biographies of the cultural personalities they read to, most of whom were giants of Arab thought such as Gibran Khalil Gibran and Colette Khouli and others to spread the word. The idea attracts large numbers of children from the countryside of Qatina and participates in this beautiful challenge.
Claudia Al-Fahal, President of the Cultural Center in Qatina, thanked the Cultural Center in Homs and the Life Skills team, who hosted the initiative.
The girls who won the competition centers and who gave a glimpse of their reading experiences confirmed that reading means diving into the minds of the world’s geniuses to find solutions to our problems and to prove that reading is the means to bring the Arab community out of the clutches of ignorance to the lights of science and to write lines in the book The New and Renewed Syria in Thought, Science and Civilization.
The event was attended by educational, social and cultural figures.
Hanan Sweid
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