Inauguration of a Signing Ceremony for A Female Pupil’s Memoirs – Between Yesterday and Today Authored by Maye Shibr
Among the activities of the cultural programme of the Iraqi Business council (IBC), Creativity, the IBC orchestrated yesterday, 14.06.2015, in the IBC’s meeting room, a signing ceremony forA Female Pupil’s Memoirs – Between Yesterday and Today, authored by Iraqi writer, Ms. Maye Shibr.
At the outset, Professor Salah Jarrar, former Minister of Culture, delivered an overview about the autobiography of authoress, Maye Shibr, reviewing her significant role in educational issues.
Professor Jarrar also touched on the role of the writer in the Jordanian cultural landscape since the nineties.
He also walked the audience through a number of the works of Ms. Shibr in the areas of education, school libraries and community issues, as well as through her continuous efforts in the publication of her articles in a number of the local newspapers.
Professor Jarrar described her the book as ‘introducing a new distinguished colour, where the authoress employed her memoirs to present creative educational notions using charming, smooth and proper rhetoric’.
He also looked into the key significantly important subjects which the publication examines and which has guiding benefits for education; meanwhile, the speaker stressed the importance of education in the early years of childhood, hoping the Ministry of Education would guide its schools to own this valuable product, as it can serve as a basic part and reference to which male and female teachers, school principals and students would refer.
On her part, authoress Shibr presented a number of the topics that her work tackles, including her memoirs during childhood; she discussed the education methodologies comparing the past with the present, and the role of technology evolution and its impact across generations.
The event also included poems presented by the Sheik of Arab artists, Rafiq al-Lahham and Poet Lawyer Raghib al-Qassim. At the end of the gathering, both of Mr. Mamoun at-Talhouni and Professor Jarrar commended the role IBC is playing in supporting male and female authors and writers, as well as the Iraqi community in Jordan.
The opening ceremony was attended by Iraq ambassador to Jordan, Professor Jawad Hadi Abbas and his wife; the cultural attaché, Dr Abbas al-Husseiny; Iraq health attaché assistant, Dr Wahhab Abbas; the military attaché at the Egyptian embassy to Jordan; and Mr. Aayed ath-Thafeery, chairman of the board of directors/Arab-Australian Institute for Strategic Affairs.
On the part of the IBC, the ceremony was attended by IBC’s Vice President and Secretary, Saad Naji; IBC’s Vice President and a number of the IBC’s members of the board of directors: Mr. Nizar Aawjy, Mr. Mohammad Jawad al-Jboury, Mrs. Wasan al-Khafajy and member of the humanitarian committee, Mrs. Widad as-Saffaar, as well as a number of the representatives of the diplomatic missions to the country, in addition to a large crowd of Iraqi and Arab writers and artists, satellite station channels, the media and the IBC’s director-general and staff.
