Aleppo-SANA
Aleppo's cultural platforms were not sheltered by the darkness of terrorism that had loomed over the city's intellectual space for a while. Rather, it continued to play its role in spreading enlightenment thought to enhance the steadfastness of the people of the city who were united with the men of the Syrian Arab Army in its heroic epics, to defeat terrorism and achieve victory by the birth of a new dawn.
With the sixth anniversary of Aleppo's victory over terrorism, the director of culture in Aleppo, Jaber al-Sajur, recalled in a statement to SANA reporter the active role of the House of Culture in the Sabaa Bahrat area of Aleppo, and its intellectual and cultural activity during his stay in the courtyard of the house, where traces of ruin and destruction were evident on its walls as a result of terrorism.
And he indicated that the national hands are working to restore the spirit of the house through its rehabilitation and restoration, with the start of the restoration and rehabilitation of cultural centers at the governorate level, as the first phase of the restoration of the house has been completed, and it included stone facades, damaged parts of the walls, woodwork, windows and doors, and the second phase has been announced. To fully equip the stage, administrative offices and halls.
Al-Sajour indicated that the rehabilitation and restoration work of the Arab Cultural Center in the city of Deir Hafer in the eastern countryside of Aleppo has been completed, which serves large areas up to Maskanah. The restoration of the Cultural Center in the Aziziyah neighborhood has also been completed and the theater is named after the artist Omar Hajjo. The National Book House has also been restored. Which is an important cultural edifice in two phases, the first included administrative offices and the second the rehabilitation of the theater, and today it is witnessing an active cultural movement of seminars, lectures, cultural and literary evenings, plays, and book exhibitions. in the second stage.
He pointed out that Aleppo was named the capital of Syrian culture 2018-2019, and more than 120 cultural activities were accomplished, and that it witnessed a great cultural breakthrough in all facilities, starting from human rehabilitation and ending with stone, and today the number of beneficiaries from cultural institutes, including higher institutes, Port Said, Azizia and other institutes, is increasing. Spreading in the countryside, the active cultural and intellectual movement continues in the city, including theater, plastic art exhibitions, concerts, musical and poetic art evenings, festivals, and intellectual and literary forums.
He explained that among them was recently the writer Shakib al-Jabri’s forum for novelist creativity, the session of the writer Nader al-Sibai, and it included a large number of figures of thought and literature, where a flag of the intellectual and cultural city of Aleppo was illuminated, in addition to the establishment of the Omar Abu Risha Festival for Poetic Creativity, as well as the Fatih Forum The annual school is part of the Syrian Fine Art Days, and included a large number of exhibitions, important plastic art activities, outdoor painting workshops, the Directorate building, and a number of seminars and documentaries.
And he indicated that during the celebration of World Music Day, he presented a number of concerts, including the concerts of the students of the Sabah Fakhri Institute, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and held throughout the year, on a monthly basis, eastern, western and classical music concerts.
Al-Sajour noted the great cultural renaissance that the city of Aleppo is witnessing in terms of thought, literature and art, in parallel with the restoration of life to cultural centers and the follow-up of plans to restore the rest of the damaged centers. Cultural houses and houses are also being restored, including Dar Ajqbash, which is being rehabilitated with the help of brothers in the Sultanate of Oman. Under the supervision of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums.
Qusai Razzouk
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