{"id":4274,"date":"2018-04-12T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.mabarrat.org.lb\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:09:00","slug":"1-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%87-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a5%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%b6-%d8%a7%d9%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newpub.mabarrat.org.lb\/en\/1-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%87-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a5%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%b6-%d8%a7%d9%84\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Fadlallah at the Opening of Al-Mabarrat's 11th Book Fair: For Restoring the Relationship Between the Book and the Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al-Mabarrat Charitable Association opened its 11th annual book fair at the University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon on the airport road, in the presence of media, cultural, religious and educational figures.

Fadlallah<\/strong>
The ceremony opened with the national anthem, then came a speech by the director general of Al-Mabarrat Association Mohammad Baqir Fadlallah, in which he affirmed \u201cthe importance of the book and the importance of reading for the coming generation\u201d, noting \u201cthe role of the libraries in Al-Mabarrat Association in encouraging reading and a return to the book at a time when social media have taken control of it\u201d.

He said: \u201cWe meet today to open the central annual book fair of Al-Mabarrat schools, in the embrace of one of its emerging edifices, the University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon, which completes the higher-education journey of Al-Mabarrat institutions and which has become an object of its community's trust thanks to the level of its teaching and its openness.\u201d

Fadlallah added: \u201cThis year Al-Mabarrat is celebrating, within a series of occasions, the passing of forty years since its founding, under the slogan (Forty Years for the Good of the Human Being and of Life) - forty years of accomplishments in which Al-Mabarrat was able to build edifices and institutions, and established a distinctive, developed education that rivals the long-established educational institutions, and followed the path of renewal, development and modernization in its fields and curricula in a way that suits the requirements of the age and of life.\u201d

He pointed out \u201cthat Al-Mabarrat, with its various educational and cultural institutions, affirms the importance of training its members and its students in the companionship of the book and in respecting and valuing it, because it is nourishment for the mind, cultivation, guidance and preservation of the memory of human knowledge, a comfort against boredom, and a path to the various sciences and forms of knowledge. It is the faithful companion that leads a person to distinction and success in his academic and practical life, especially in the age we now live in, which has imposed on us the need to keep pace with developments that do not stop at any stage of life.\u201d

He noted \u201cthat the decline in the cultural level that has begun to afflict our Arab society today has as one of its most important causes people's turning away from the book, and their being distracted by modern and continually renewed technological means, which have dazzled their minds and diverted them from taking comfort in a book that quenches the thirst of their cultural and scientific interests\u201d.

He called for \u201crenewing our relationship with the book, for it is the best means of seeking knowledge throughout life; it confronts us and debates with us thought against thought without troubling us with its moods; it develops the side of thinking, analysis and criticism in the reader in a way that strengthens his thinking, feeds the store of his information, his knowledge, his language and his vocabulary, and enables him to become acquainted with the various cultures as they have developed through the ages\u201d.

Fadlallah concluded: \u201cWe in Al-Mabarrat institutions are all called upon to make these institutions oases of culture in the face of the cultural desertification hanging over our Arab world, pointing to the importance of joining all efforts to restore the relationship between the book and the reader, through guidance in the media and shedding light on the gravity of abandoning reading and of the decline in the relationship between the reader and the book. In our social life there is great room for bringing out the value of the book, by making it a form of welcome gift; and let us make our children and our students lovers of reading who long for knowledge, so as to attain a bright future in which we have a foothold in the march of history and civilization.\u201d

Haidar<\/strong>
The ceremony included a speech for the librarians delivered by Mariam Haidar, in which she stressed \u201cthe activities that will be held on the sidelines of the book fair, the first of which was a seminar addressed to the students of the secondary section entitled \u2018Between the Religious and the Scientific Vision of the Universe', presented by Professor Neamah Naim and addressed by His Eminence Allama Sheikh Hussein Al-Khashen and Dr Mohammad Abbas, in addition to an activity with the storyteller Sarah Qusair for the students of grade four in Al-Mabarrat schools; after which everyone moved to the opening of the fair\u201d.

It is worth noting that the events of the fair, which will continue until the 17th of this month, include several activities, among them: a lecture on \u201cSafe Entry to the Internet\u201d with First Lieutenant Mahmoud Ali; a lecture entitled \u201cWhy I Read\u201d with Silva Shahin; a meeting with the media figure Nidal Shehab to get to know the Lebanese cities and regions; a meeting with the writer Leila Shamseddine about her book \u201cThe Manners of Conduct: The Arts of Communication and Distinction\u201d; a lecture presented by the JAD Association about the dangers of addiction; and a meeting with Oumaima Alaik about her books \u201cTell Me About God\u201d, \u201cThe Alphabet of Life\u201d and \u201cWhy?\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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