Tartous-SANA
The changes and transformations that Syrian poetry in general and what poets presented were the focus of the symposium that was held within the activities of the second and last day of the Nadim Muhammad Festival for Poetry and Criticism, which lasted for two days at the Arab Cultural Center in Tartous.
The symposium titled (The Poetry Movement in Syria... The Syrian Coast as a Model) in which Dr. Osama Mihoub, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, discussed the beginnings stage, and the role of cultural platforms and magazines and their impact on raising poetry in the Syrian coastal region, speaking about the experience of Al-Nahda magazine published in 1937 by Dr. Wajih Mohi El-Din, through which he sought to bring about a poetic openness movement in the coast, in which he took charge of writing intellectual topics.
And he indicated that the poet Hamid Hassan was responsible for its literary activities, as it issued 12 issues over the course of three years.
And then, according to Mayhoub, the magazine “Al-Qithara” published in Lattakia in 1946 came to specialize in poetry in the Syrian coastal region, and in its 12 issues left a clear imprint in documenting poetic activity in this region.
Mihoub considered, in a statement to SANA, that the festival, although it commemorates the memory of Nadim Muhammad and his prestigious literary position, it is necessary to recall other experiences and models that were deeply engraved in our minds and left their clear impact on poetry, story, prose, and other literary arts.
In his turn, Dr. Muhammad Ali, a teacher at the Faculty of Arts, touched on the transformations that occurred in the Arabic poem on the Syrian coast, and the role of poetry and poets of this region in reaching a distinguished position at the level of language, content and rhythm.
Four Tartous poets presented poetry readings of a variety of topics and styles, including what carries messages of reproach for the shy Arabs’ stances, such as the poem “A satirical message to a sarcastic” by the poet Ahlam Ghanem, and a sentimental poem entitled “Give Wisal” in which it depicted some of the heroics of the Syrian Arab Army.
The poet Bassam Hammouda presented the poem “Playing the Autumn String”, which bears the realistic style of the circumstances we are going through, and the poet Lisa Khader read three poems, namely “Strike - We Parted - An Appointment with God”, all of which are poems that depict reality and simulate social conditions.
The poet Munther Issa presented from his group “Alone You Will Go” and it is “What does the poet do in the coffee shop – the scarf of splendor – for time loyal”.
Fatima Hussain
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