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Dr Muna Bounama: The Sharjah Cultural Café discusses Arab heritage

Dr Muna Bounama: The Sharjah Cultural Café discusses Arab heritage

Sharjah 2416-02-2025
In a statement to Sharjah 24, Dr. Bounama noted that the cultural café addressed several topics related to Arab and Emirati heritage, including artificial intelligence and its relation to heritage, the importance of travel literature in documenting Arab and specifically Emirati folk heritage, the similarities and differences in Arab folk poetry, and the future of geographical heritage.
Bounama added that the café is accompanied by several valuable publications launched by the institute, including "Al-Larain: The Currency of Land and Sea" by Dr. Moataz Osman, "Puppet Arts in Arab Heritage" by Dr. Adnan Saloum, and "The Date Palms of the United Arab Emirates in the Writings of Western Travelers" by Dr. Ali Afifi, in addition to the book "The Western House" published by the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, which was launched by Dr. Abdulaziz Muslim, the institute's chairman, in honor of the legacy left by the late urban expert Abdul Sattar Al-Izzawi.
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