Sharjah: Literature and academics highlight the ability of Arab literature to face global competition

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Organized by the Sharjah Book Authority on the sidelines of the 37th session of the Sharjah International Book Fair, with the participation of Dr. Razan Ibrahim, Academic Researcher Najib Al Awfi, Writer and Editor Jennifer Prehl, Badia Al Hashemi .
Badia Al-Hashemi started the seminar with a summary of the transformation of the means of transfer of Almshafhp's literature towards paper in order to reach today modern technology, which has also produced a new type of technology (interactive) , raising this question of transformation as to its ability to achieve its goals in contact with readership, Establish a stable position in the world literature.
AndAt the beginning of her speech, Dr. Razan Ibrahim, Professor of Modern Literature and Criticism at the University of Petra Jordan, defined the essence of world literature as an achievement transcending borders and managing to resist time, which allowed him to influence other literatures such as Dante, Shakespeare,.
She pointed out that modern multimedia media would not influence the universality of literature, however varied, as long as they encompass humanitarian issues, but include artistic and aesthetic values, emphasizing that literary literature is another important factor of its universality. The curiosity of readers around the world on the issues it addresses and the high proportion of translations are important factors in improving its universality, especially in light of the experiences produced by Gibran Khalil Gibran's literature, Naguib Mahfouz Tayeb Saleh and others.
In the same context, a university researcher from Mohammed V University in Morocco, Najib Awfi, said: "The appeals launched to save the literature from the relapse case have shown that the danger lies in the fact that the schools of Criticism dominant in the literary scene isolate literature from reality, It passes from reading literature to reading reviews. "
Al-Awfi added: "The means of communication have allowed wide access to the world, and quoted the writers and writers of the isolation that they had to fully communicate and the importance of this event, but his joy is lacking due to lack of standards of technical control, literary and linguistic and taste, and a curse on literature at a time, "indicating that good literature, the spirit world, comes from the local saturation to take its place with a global strength.
British writer and publisher Jennifer Prehl concluded the seminar by praising new media for the transfer of literature as a creative means of sharing literary species among peoples. She said in her speech about the new generation of non-reading that the sales figures of the books of these age groups confirm the opposite, they consider it appropriate both for the expression of their thoughts and of their interests only for the transmission of literature, art, culture and taste.