The Chairman of NCCAH, Sheikh Mishaal Bin
Jassim Al Thani: Doha Seventh Cultural Festival events are
so widely open and so openly global that this gathering
could be in the future one of the most significant
international events.
Secretary General of NCCAH, Mr. Moubarak Bin Nasser Al Khalifa : Our aim is to prepare citizens and residents to welcome 2010 when Qatar will be the Capital of the Culture.
Al-Majlis Hall, Sheraton Hotel at 18.00,
04.3.2008
A group of experts
gathered in this meeting scheduled during Doha Seventh
Cultural Festival; they lectured about their passion: old
manuscripts of Vernacular Gulf Poetry. Moubarak al-Amari,
Ibrahim al-Khalidi and Ali al-Messaoudi presented an update
of the current situation of manuscripts reporting
traditional vernacular poems.
Start of the show at 18.00 Monday 03.3.08 at
Countryside location
One of the most significant expressions of
Arabic Peninsula’s culture and heritage is surely Poetry and
the related cavalry art. Cavalry has always expressed the
Arabic lifestyle, and the horse (preferably Arab
thoroughbred!) was always one of the best companions of the
Arab.
A certain School of Western art critics say that Arabic
Calligraphy and Abstract art developed in the Islamic Sphere
since figurative representation is forbidden by Sharia.
Arabs and Muslims art specialists do not agree and argue
that Islamic Civilization has naturally opted by
abstraction, Arabic language is directed towards the ease of
abstraction, Mathematics that Arabs have substantially
developed work specifically with abstraction…
Opening
of the Black and White Photographic Exhibition of Sheikh
Khaled Bin Hamad Bin Ahmad Al Thani: “Ishq al-Falaa, or
Wild Spaces Passion”,
2nd
of March, Salwa Hall, Sheraton Hotel
His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin
Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar and Her Excellency Sheikha
Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani, Chairperson of the Board of
Trustees of Qatar Museum Authority inaugurated the
exhibition. The entrance was decorated with a very refined
collection of white roses and exquisite exotic species that
brought a joyful atmosphere to the exhibition entrance.
Opening of the Cultural Café at the Sheraton Hotel.
Fancy seats covered with fabrics
inspired from traditional Qatari rugs, round tables in
copper, a friendly atmosphere where you small the perfume of
the exquisite Arabic coffee… It’s not a Thousand and One
Night party, it’s the Cultural Café that the National
Culture for Culture,
Arts and
Heritage opened this 29th
day of February and that constitutes by now a solid
tradition in Doha Cultural Festival happenings. The first evening was dedicated to the
theme of “Creative Qatari Experience” that focused on Qatari
experiences in Arabic narrative and poetry both dialectal
and classic. Dr. Muhammad Slim from Qatar lectured about the
narrative experience, Mr. Ali al-Fayadh talked about popular
poetry and Mr. Muhammad Rabii about classic poetry. The
session was presided by Mrs. Hissa al-Awa
hi. Before the start of the lectures,
theater writer Hamad al-Remihi signed his work: “Songs of
Joy and sadness” that has been translated in French.
A rich cultural program is scheduled
all along the Festival evenings.
Start of the Symposia “Islamic
Arts between Heritage Identity and Global Society “
2nd
and 3rd March – Al-Maha Hall, Sheraton Hotel
The
Visual Arts Centre, a department of the National Culture for
Arts, Culture and Heritage organizes many exhibitions,
roundtables and symposia, among which one of the most
important is surely the series of Lectures dedicated to
Islamic Arts.
From
the list of the Lecturers, we can deduce the importance that
the organizers give to the theme that will be debated. Quite
logically, the Visual Arts Centre has direct interest to
bring a stone to the widespread debate in the Arab World,
which focuses on Islamic Arts and Aesthetics. The speakers
are artists, researchers, academicians and art critics from
Qatar, Tunisia, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and
Syria.
