From Al-Mostafa Al-Sawfi
RABAT, Dec 5 (KUNA) -- Chairman of Morocco's Writers Union (MWU) Dr. Abdulhamid Aqar hailed here Tuesday the role played by Kuwait and its National Council of Culture, Arts and Literature (NCCAL) in highlighting Arab culture.
Kuwait's cultural reconnaissance has greatly contributed to highlighting the bright image of Arab culture worldwide, he told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
In his interview with KUNA, he focused on Kuwait's swift growth in cultural creativity and production channels, saying that the State of Kuwait is very distinctive in this field.
Hailing the NCCAL's role, he said its publications have been wide-scale across the Arab world, mentioning in particular the famous Al-Arabi, Alam Al-Fikr and Alam Al-Ma'rifa magazines, which publish creative works by many intellectuals and thinkers, whether from Morocco or other Arab countries.
The Moroccan chief writer also lauded the Kuwait University's diverse literary, cultural, intellectual and scientific publications that contribute to the building of deep knowledge at the local and Arab levels.
He underlined the significant relationship between the League of Kuwaiti Writers and its Moroccan counterpart, hailing the former's monthly publication Al-Bayan, which wields a favorable impact on Arab culture and thinking.
Moroccans are interested in Kuwaiti literature, which creates some effective communication between Kuwaiti and Moroccan cultures, he said.
Furthermore, he praised the experiment between the MWU and the Kuwaiti Information Office in Rabat, which published scores of Moroccan researches, books and publications on the occasion of a festival marking Kuwait as a capital of Arab culture in 2001.
This experiment, which took place during the term of former chairman of the MWU Hassan Nejmi, was very distinctive and embodied the significance of strong brotherly relations between Morocco and Kuwait to promote literary and intellectual practice, Aqar said.
He crossed his fingers that such important initiatives, which are beneficial to bilateral cultural ties, would be nonstop, noting that Kuwaiti and Moroccan writers and intellectuals frequently attend intellectual festivals and forums in both nations.
In conclusion, the MWU chief emphasized that bilateral cultural cooperation is a necessary addition to distinctive political and economic relations, deeming it a firm springboard for more effective Arab cooperation that could serve Arab and international issues of mutual concern.
