* Zainab Muhammad Al-Bishr: Our aim is to promote national identity and popular heritage
The events department of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage has announced the launch of Izbat Al Bush activities for this year, in partnership with the Emirates Foundation for School Education, Dubai Marine Sports Club and Dubai Ambulance, (Tuesday, December 20), which includes 42 students selected from those who wish to participate in a version This year, is one of the activities of the winter camp, which will last until December 25.
This event confirms the centre’s ongoing role in finding new channels to inculcate national values among young people and spread awareness of local community culture.
The students, aged between 10-16, have been selected to work on the promotion of the principles and values of the local community’s popular heritage, such as how to welcome guests and how to welcome them, respect and help to elders, honor and obey parents. The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for Heritage Revival also works through Homestead Activities, to train participants on how to
Facing the “mountain” and methods for riding it. They are also taught to throw a saktoun in the Al-Rawiya Square of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for Heritage Revival. In addition to this, they are trained and taught the basics and principles of yawla by the Director of the Center’s Championships Department, Rashid Al-Khasouni, with the assistance of numerous coaches. The center, with the aim of developing and refining educational skills, physical and cultural aspects of children.
This year’s edition includes many activities related to the country’s heritage and history, including visiting the library of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for Heritage Revival and participating in the Al Maktoum Cup race for local rowing boats, so that the students move on the evening of next Friday, December 23, to Al-Midan castle in the historic village in Marmoum area to watch Al-Maidan 18 program for the Fazza Al-Yola Tournament, as well as a special seminar on the basics of falconry.
Zainab Muhammad Al-Bishr, Head of Cultural and Heritage Services Department, in the Events Department of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for Heritage Revival, said, “We organize this year’s events with greater ease, after completing the precautionary measures for the Covid 19 Virus, as the safety and health of our children are at the top of our priorities and we work with every effort to empower young people and teach them local culture, basics of self-reliance and other social values that characterize our society in the UAE and the activities we engage in on the estate, and we see on a daily basis the extent of our children’s interaction and their ability to respond to the consolidation of these social values, such as camel riding, shooting and yawla.
Al-Bishr emphasized that the camp is an activity of entertainment, heritage and culture and an initiation towards more of these focused activities that help raise a generation that adheres to its heritage and social legacies at an early age.
