Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions

The Ministry of Culture establish the first database to collect folklore

Egyptians - Date 14/08/2010 - Departement Arts and Culture - page - by

Said Dr. Ahmed Al Marsa popular literature professor at Cairo University to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture began to create the first database for the collection, classification and archiving of folklore within the framework of a project to document to preserve the heritage under the identity variables globalization.
Of the Marina explained in an interview with the program Good Morning Egypt Egyptian TV on Saturday that the ministry has trained 80 young professionals to participate in the project and provided them with digital cameras and had a 1400 trip to the 29 counties for the collection of Egyptian heritage and popular traditions.
He said the People's heritage includes proverbs, popular biography and arts storytelling and puzzles, noting that Upper Egypt is the most richest in the People's legacies.
He pointed out that it must provide specific conditions in the popular tradition of documented within the folklore like to express his vision or if a collective and its author unknown and adopted by people refusing to release the term "Songs folkloric" on the so-called "songs popular bearish" currently deployed.
He added that there have been attempts to collect Heritage carried out by civilian institutions and other individual, including "Egyptian Society of Folk Arts" as well as the poet Abdel Rahman Abnoudy documented the "Biography Hilaliya" chapters of the collection mouths of Mnhdiha alone. A professor of literature that in spite of these attempts, but there is still a legacy of huge wasted waiting for documentation such as the heritage of musical and film, especially after the sale of Heritage lyrical owned by the Federation of Egyptian Radio and TV to one of the Arab satellite channels, which is estimated at 11 thousand minutes of concerts for senior singers Egyptians and Arabs.
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