CCQ organises cultural seminar

The Community College of Qatar (CCQ) in collaboration with the Qatar National Committee for Education, Culture and Science, the Qatari Forum for Authors, and Unesco, organised a cultural seminar entitled "Arabic Language and Cultural Communication" to celebrate the Arabic language, marking the International Mother Language Day.It also marked the anniversary of Doha being named the Capital of Culture in the Islamic World for 2021 by the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation.The seminar hosted Abdullah Khamis al-Kubaisi, acting secretary-general of the Qatar Committee for Education, Culture, and Science at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and Maryam Yassin al-Hammadi, director general of the Qatari Forum for Authors and director of the Department of Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture. Dr Mariam Ibrahim al-Hammadi, dean of the Liberal Arts Division at the CCQ, inaugurated the seminar moderated by Dr Abdelhak Belabed, associate professor at the Arabic Language Department at Qatar University and member of the Qatari Forum for Authors.The seminar was initiated by Dr Mounira Gannouni, assistant professor at the social sciences department at CCQ, with a paper entitled: 'The Reality of the Arabic Language between the Spoken and the Written. Social Media platforms as an example'. In the second part of the seminar, Dr Sheikh Ahmed Amou, assistant professor at the Social Sciences Department at CCQ, presented a paper entitled: 'Poetic Language: A Look at the Cultural Components of the Arabic Language'.In the third part of the seminar, Prof Asmaa Mohamed, assistant professor at the Social Sciences Department at CCQ, discussed a working paper entitled: 'Language and Means of Communication- A Reading of Reality.'