Minister of Culture Opens Third Edition of Seminars Season

By Fathimath Nasli - March 07, 2024

Minister of Culture Opens Third Edition of Seminars Season on Wednesday

HE Minister of Culture Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday opened the third edition of the "Seminars Season", organized by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of its vision to enhance cultural and intellectual identity, and support the cultural scene by building bridges of communication between intellectuals, creators, and cultural audiences.

The seminar season, which this year includes 4 seminars and a poetry evening and continues until March 9, is a platform for thought, literature and enlightened dialogue, and a bridge on which the creativity of intellectuals, people of speech and opinion, writers, artists and poets converge.

The 2024 Seminars Season began with a special tribute from HE Minister of Culture, Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Thani to the writer, poet and former diplomat, Dr. Hassan Al Nama, in appreciation of his long poetic career and his continuous cultural and literary contributions.

For his part, Dr. Hassan Al Nama said that the Seminars Season is a forum for art and creativity.

During the ceremony, Dr. Al Nama recited one of his poems in which he urges young people to work hard and actively to acquire knowledge.

The second day of the Season will see a seminar on Arabs and the West after the Gaza War, at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, featuring President of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies Dr. Abdulwahab Al Afandi, Professor of Political Sciences Dr. Mohammed Al Misfer, Dr. Aisha Al Basri, a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and former diplomat at the United Nations, and Dr. Basem Al Twaisi, head of the Media Studies Program at the Doha Institute for Studies.

Algerian intellectual Dr. Mabrouk Zaid Al Khair, member of the Supreme Islamic Council in Algeria and professor of linguistics and Quranic rhetoric, will also be a guest during the Seminars Season through a public seminar on the concept of coexistence in Islamic civilization and its impact on nation building and stability.