By KUNA
Kuwait : Researchers and academics said Wednesday Al-Arabi Magazine has shown a unique style in literature coupled with relentless efforts to show this literature in a creative narrative manner.
The features published by Al-Arabi “belonged to a school that strengthened its foundations over the years,” Dr. Khaled Azab, Information Director at Alexandria Library, said in a seminar about “Al-Arabi Magazine … the Linking Chain with the World” that marked the magazine’s 50th anniversary.
Al-Arabi, said Azab, has educated Arab citizens about their own nation “because this citizen was in absence from his nation because of many reasons foremost poverty, second lack of education then colonization.” The features played a cultural and educational role in the Arab world, he said, and Al-Arabi enabled the reader to travel to all Arab countries while sitting in his home. These features, he added, enabled the reader to know about the culture, traditions, history and places of other countries.
Dr. Arthur Goldsmith, history professor at Pennsylvania University, called for correcting mistakes written about history and to stop using knowledge to please rulers and people in power.
Goldsmith, specialized in history of Islamic and Arab tradition, said some orientalists were undermining Arab tradition for religious, political or personal purposes.
Goldsmith highlighted struggle of Arabs against the Western colonization and cited the fight of the Egyptians against the occupiers.
Dr. Nawaf Al-Jehma, history professor at Kuwait’s Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), said Al-Arabi magazine was a key publication within the “journeys of journalism in our contemporary history.” He said the journeys of Al-Arabi provided “a variety of cultural pictures.” Syria writer and novelist Nabeel Suleiman commended the features published by Al-Arabi.
He hoped the editorial of Al-Arabi would publish a book containing all journeys carried out by the magazine in all Arab countries.