Seminar warns of Israel's theft of Egyptian folklore

Seminar warns of Israel's theft of Egyptian folklore

Al Jazeera Net - Date 21/04/2008 - Departement Culture and art - page - by Badr Mohamed Badr

Warned a seminar held in Cairo and addressed to "the collection and documentation of project and development of the Egyptian popular traditions" of Israel's theft of Palestinian folklore and especially from the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
  And blew one of the participants in the seminar by saying that surprise "People Mothoratna steal either from Israel or the other, according to international conventions as long as we did not Notgaha and Nsgelha our name become really those obtained".
  Experts said at the seminar - organized by the Supreme Council of Culture - The popular traditions archiving civilized country the size of Egypt is an important issue in light of international variables do not respect only brute force.
  He noted professor of architecture popular Hanna Naim that the destruction of the cultural power of the people of Iraq to make to keep the National Archives national security issue wraps around all the sons of the homeland.
  Provocations
the In turn, expressed professor of customs and beliefs at the Higher Institute of Folk Art, Dr. Samih Shaalan regret to steal Lady foreign heritage Siwa Oasis, and the creation of Israel stealing heritage Egypt and the formation of a special project of it, stressing that these "provocations that did not lead to alert These PLAGUE".
  Shaalan also revealed that Israel "stole everything we have and put it in the archives," which led to the mobilization of the project team for collecting, documenting and development of the Egyptian People's traditions.
  The team added that the fact that a national archive of folk art project as a prime target, maintains privacy for future generations, through scientific methods and strong human cadres and trained to combine operations interlocking and overlapping and integrated and Nbga only scientific monitoring of the Secretary ".
  In a statement to the island Shaalan said team member "We Manmomon the issue of the vessels, a condition that the melting of the Egyptian civilization, where it is bringing Western vocabulary instead of the vocabulary of the Egyptian culture, and we have to look at the features of Mbartna".
  Project details
For his part, a project official warned happiest Nadim that mechanism works and digital information technologies.   The participants were trained in the project and provide them with modern equipment enables a person to regions envoy from dump information and sent to the headquarters of the project in the neighborhood aesthetic, and in the same day continues with his teacher via the Internet, hosted and addressed during the field work.
  Nadim announced that the substance of the project will be placed on the international information network for the benefit of everyone everywhere and easily. Question
the The President of the Academy of Arts Esmat Yehia wondered about the future of archival material status of folk art, collected over half a century, and called for the project team to move from the headquarters of the aesthetic to the headquarters of the Institute.
  Refused to turn filmmaker Ahmed Darwish said in a statement to the island to adopt the Egyptian Ministry of Culture of the project, because the history of Egyptian bureaucracy may stop project or Aatlh.
  Dr Ahmed Morsi, professor of popular literature at Cairo University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Beni Suef to traditions is a popular arts and traditions, customs and forms of expression different from movement and rhythm and forming material, and condition the mind of the traditions people to express their conscience collective and trade among the people.
  And released the first volume of the Folk Arts for bread, and the second for musical instruments, and the third will be released in a matter of months for crockery.  
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