RASIT Arts Literature & Culture Council

Arts Literature Culture Council is a Program of RASIT
The First International Non-Governmental Scientific Organization To Enroll Culture & Art As A Governing Committee Of Its Executive Board

42 years for RASIT’s mission in this world:a mission based on promoting and
implementing peace, tolerance and respect between individuals, societies & nations

Save the Date:

21 May
The World day for cultural diversity for
Dialogue and Development

21 September
International Day for Peace

27 October
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

16 November
International Day for Tolerance

for further information on our functions /
involvements in celebrating these days,
please contact us at admin@rasit.org

Welcome

for its dialogue:
a dialogue based on combining
science and arts

In the News

40 years for the World Heritage Convention

"Iraqi Drama: a presentation by Hamed El-Maliki"
In collaboration with the Syndicate of Professional Artists in Lebanon, RASIT Arts
Literature & Culture Council hosted a cultural evening held at the UNESCO Palace in
Beirut on 24 May 2011, featuring the Iraqi Drama: past, present and future. Hamed El-
Maliki, a renowned Iraqi writer, spoke about how the Iraqi Drama that he writes present
the Iraqi people and society. The Executive Director of RASIT, HRH Dr Princess
Nisreen El-Hashemite, then presented the RASIT Awards to the Syndicate of
Professional Artists in Lebanon and to Hamed El-Maliki in recognition of thy
outstanding achievements in Arab States Art & Literature.
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البيـان باللغـة العربيـة

Art & Life:
In collaboration with Music Nation ME, a new section was created within the Music
Nation electronic magazine reporting artistic activities happening in Iraq. The section,
published in Arabic Language, is a window featuring life through arts in Iraq with all
difficulties occurring there.
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Protecting Iraqi Heritage:
A new campaign to document Iraqi historical places and protect it. Starting in Baghdad,
HRH Princess Dr Nisreen El-Hashemite - Executive Director, invited historians and
photographers to take pictures of historical places. Unfortunately, several places were
destroyed by religious and new Iraqi leaders in the year 2010. Through the campaign,
the ALC Council invites whomever is concerned to join and speak out to protect the Iraqi
Heritage and historical places, this heritage belong to humans everywhere.
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Baghdadi Eyes:
Per the recommendations of RASIT's Executive Director, HRH Princess Dr Nisreen El-
Hashemite, a new section titled "Iraqi Photography Exhibition" is established within the
ALC Council featuring pictures from Iraq.
This online exhibition shows pictures about Iraq that others around the world do not
know. The first online exhibition presents "Baghdad" through the Eyes of two university
students from the Academy of Fine Arts - Baghdad University (Mustafa Al-Dabagh
& Noof Al-Falahi) and one young professional working in media (Reem Khan).
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Read Online:
Under the theme of "Towards Knowledge Societies", RASIT is taking the initiative
in Arab States to publish and present different kinds of literature and philosophy as well
as science in an electronic and audio forms. This initiative, the first of its kind in Arab
States, will encourage the industry of publishing books, that are expensive in these
countries, as well as will give opportunity to readers obtain books at lower costs. The
Read Online initiative will also encourage reading and knowledge. The First 2 books
published in January 2011.