Minister of Culture and Information Thanks King, Hails Souq Okaz As Global Gathering, Symbol for Arabs 4 Taif

  • 2/10/2023
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Minister of Culture and Information said that the Ministry has established the "Cultural Calendar" website which allows every citizen, resident or visitor to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to know the cultural, literary and Fine arts events through the application of mobile phone, and will choose the event he/she needs to browse, next to what literary clubs are offering of a lot of events, to serve citizens and residents across the Kingdom. He pointed out that the Kingdom is witnessing a boom in the culture sector in general as the Saudi people among the most advanced in the world, in terms of acquisition of the book, according to the number of visitors to both Riyadh and Jeddah International Book Fairs, each year, which are witnessing strong demand unrivaled by society, in general, and women and children, in particular. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia faces a fierce war over social networking sites, including its economic, industrial and cultural achievements, as the leader of the Arab and Islamic worlds, and member of the Group of 20 and an influential country in the energy and industry sector, pointing out that there are forged and fake accounts on sites of the social networking that broadcast venom and toxins from outside the Kingdom, using the names and pictures of Saudi citizens and speak their own language. He warned of those fraudulent malevolent accounts that want to penetrate into the body of our nation and cohesion and play into the hands of the leadership and people, calling for confronting these enemies who speak our language and in our own names, pointing out that he has been stopped a lot of those channels and block those accounts, disrupting their ability to work in broadcasting their venom, which hurt them and we will continue to defend our homeland. The Minister of Culture and Information stressed on the need to strengthen national concept, saying that: "Our motherland which was founded by King Abdulaziz, may God rest his soul, in peace, and his sons kings who followed him, right down to the reign of King Salman, adding that we do not forget King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, may God have mercy on him, and what he has done for intellectuals and the educated. How can we reverse the national concept through the arts as the language of communication with the world and as we are living up very significantly and talking to the world. " He said: "First we must thank all former ministers of information on their efforts, all media retirees who were on the job to establish a fund to support artists and another to support the writers and figures, as well as intellectuals and the educated. Creating artistic and literary works, stressing that the Media Production City is a necessity where there will be a feasibility study, since there is a tendency in the ministry for the establishment of a Royal Arts Complex, that includes ownership of the Arts Academy concerned with teaching of TV output, and all associated new media field. -- SPA 21:28 LOCAL TIME 18:28 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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