Sharjah24: Dr Muna Bounama, Director of Content and Publishing at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, explained that the cultural café accompanying the Sharjah Heritage Days celebrates a select group of experts and researchers who discussed various approaches related to this year's theme, "Roots."
In a statement to Sharjah 24, Dr. Bounama noted that the cultural café addressed several topics related to Arab and Emirati heritage, including artificial intelligence and its relation to heritage, the importance of travel literature in documenting Arab and specifically Emirati folk heritage, the similarities and differences in Arab folk poetry, and the future of geographical heritage.
Bounama added that the café is accompanied by several valuable publications launched by the institute, including "Al-Larain: The Currency of Land and Sea" by Dr. Moataz Osman, "Puppet Arts in Arab Heritage" by Dr. Adnan Saloum, and "The Date Palms of the United Arab Emirates in the Writings of Western Travelers" by Dr. Ali Afifi, in addition to the book "The Western House" published by the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, which was launched by Dr. Abdulaziz Muslim, the institute's chairman, in honor of the legacy left by the late urban expert Abdul Sattar Al-Izzawi.
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