Homs-Sana
In gratitude for his tireless efforts in documenting events in poetry, prose and story, between the two covers of the Syrian Open Diwan, in its first and second parts, the Homs Culture Directorate, in cooperation with the cultural institutions in the province, held a symposium honoring the poet Hassan Ibrahim Samoun, at the Cultural Center in Homs, in the presence of an audience of writers, thinkers and intellectuals, and a number of Of the participants in the Diwan.
The symposium began with the poet Hassan Ahmed with a word in which he valued (the Diwan), describing it as an important literary achievement through which Simon was able to prove that the word is no less important than the bullet, in the face of the conspiracy that targeted Syria.
The Director of the Cultural Center in Homs, the writer Wafa Younes, gave a speech from the Directorate of Culture, which indicated that the Syrian Open Court calls with its different literary genres to one essence, which is to spread love among the Syrian people who suffered the scourge of war, and emerged victorious from it, with their own will and with their sincere words.
The head of the Arabic language department at the Higher Institute of Languages at Al-Baath University, Dr. Issam Al-Kousa, described Al-Diwan as a humanitarian literary project, and that its owner, Simon, is a national figure with distinction. A free, honest person.
A member of the Arab Writers Union, the poet Muhammad Al-Ali, saw that Simon, who embodied in his literary work the adherence of the Syrian people to their living constants of plows, olives, and ears of wheat, illuminated in his poetry the wound that our country suffered on the one hand, and the heroism of our army, and its sacrifices that made victory, On the other hand, the wound was balm.
The narrator and writer Issa Ismail described Al-Diwan as a national epic, and a cultural achievement that preserves the legacy of writers who documented the crisis, and recorded victory over it in their poems and stories for future generations.
The head of the Arab Writers Union in Homs, the writer Omaima Ibrahim Al-Diwan, considered a documentation of a Syrian wound that is open to hope, and that it is a great cultural responsibility through the efforts of a noble person who achieved with his personal effort what was difficult for cultural institutions to achieve, and thanked Samaoun and the Directorate of Culture for honoring him.
Samaoun expressed his happiness for this honor, expressing his hope that the creators will always be honored, and he explained in a statement to SANA reporter that the Syrian Open Diwan, which combined its pages in its two parts, seven hundred male and female writers from all over the world, during one period of time, is a voluntary national literary work. What happened in Syria as a result of the unjust war on it.
And he indicated that the participants in the Diwan may have exaggerated their various literary methods, but they told the truth more beautifully, unlike those who deliberately obliterated it and falsified it like their predecessors who forged history.
Simon stressed that the literary document is immortal because poetry preserves the heritage of peoples, which is what ancient poetic epics did, such as Greek, Persian, and Muallaqat, hoping that the Court would form a document signed by the pens of his honorable sons.
During the symposium, the Director of Homs Culture, Hassan Al-Labbad, presented a certificate of honor to the poet Simon, in gratitude for the literary legacy he presented to the Arab library and culture.
Hanan Sweid
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