DOHA: The Ministry of Culture and Sports held a panel discussion entitled efforts to collect popular literature in the State of Qatar attended by a group of researchers in the heritage and folk literature of Qatar.
During the session, Ali Abdullah Al Fayyad, a researcher in the Qatari heritage, spoke about the efforts made to collect the Qatari folk literature, explaining that it started with individual efforts and then turned into institutional efforts, QNA has reported.
Al Fayyad explained that efforts to collect the literary heritage in Qatar remained individual until the establishment of Qatar Heritage and Identity Centre. He added that several governmental cultural institutions interested in the Qatari heritage such as the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Qatar Museums and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.
The session also dealt with the efforts of Qatari researchers who have had outstanding efforts in collecting the literary heritage, including the poet Hamad Mohsen Al Nuaimi, who is interested in heritage in the media and the Qatari press, as well as Khalifa Al Maliki, who participated in the collection of heritage, especially the old folk tale, and Qatari proverbs, in addition to the efforts of artist Abdulrahman Al Mannai in the field of theater.
The participants emphasized the importance of having a research center that would complement the previous efforts in preserving the heritage, stressing the importance of taking advantage of modern technology in heritage preservation and the concerted efforts of cultural institutions to serve the Qatari heritage.
