Writer and media figure Abeer Raydan signed her book, entitled “Rashaya Al-Wadi, its history, its civilization, its culture, its flashes of memory” at the Kamal Jumblatt Social Cultural Center in Rashaya, at a rally attended by Akram Abu Chakra, representing the Minister of Education, Judge Abbas Al-Halabi, a member of the Democratic Gathering.Representative Wael Abu Faour, poet Reine Alama, representing MP Anwar Al-Khalil, President of the Sunni Sharia Court in the Bekaa, Judge Dr. Abdel Rahman Sharqieh, representing the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Dr. Abdel Latif Derian, Ali Fayek, representing Sheikh Akl of the Unitarian Druze sect, Dr. Sami Abu Al-Muna, Exarchus Adwar Shehadi Representing Metropolitan Elias Kfoury, Major Wissam Saleh, Representing the Director General of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, World Bank Adviser and Member of the Sons of the Mountain Meeting, Dr. Mounir Hamza, Vice President of the Lebanese Development Forum Wahbi Abu Faour, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mubs University, Professor Hatem Alama, District Commissioner Omar Yassin, The Regional Director of Al-Irfan Schools, Sheikh Bashir Hammad, members of the Druze confessional council, Sheikhs Asaad Sarhal, Youssef Abu Ibrahim and Muhammad Ghannam, the trade unionist Akram Arabi, the Social Cultural Council represented by Marwan Darwish and Nabil Fares, cultural, educational and union bodies, mayors, mayors and actors.
Khair
presented the celebration, Imad Khair said: “We meet today at the signing ceremony of Rashaya Al-Wadi’s book, its history, civilization, culture, flashes of memory by the author Abeer Raydan. The book signing ceremony with the birth of the teacher Kamal Jumblatt, the thinker, who was a popular man and became a people, Kamal Jumblatt, who was a loyal citizen and became a homeland.
Faik
Fayek delivered Sheikh Al-Aql’s speech, saying: “At a time when our country is witnessing its most severe crises, and in an east that changes from day to day, an existential threat to national, social, cultural and scientific entities is attested by, this threat that has reached an unprecedented climax using all means of sabotage and destruction that has affected our cultural heritage. In light of this extremely dangerous reality, we must re-read ourselves.”
He said: “We are part of the truth and of the good that lies at the core of this universe. We have to become this truth, this strength, and this goodness, in order for us to have the freedom we deserve and this feeling of joy. Thanks to the writer Abeer Raydan, our university today, for her lavish intellectual effort, and the preserver of the history of the region.” It contains the warmth of man that always melts the ice of the years.”
beggar
The representative of Bishop Kfoury spoke and said: “Rashaya Al-Wadi has taken its right in that it is the mother of history, civilization and culture. The focus on civilizational, cultural and religious diversity was remarkable, so the writer gave everyone who has the right his right, and when she talks about the virtuous Sheikh, she appears to be a Druze deeply rooted in the religion of monotheism and in Its history, and when you talk about Jesus, appears to be Christian par excellence. This harmony between religions presents the reader with the true image of Lebanon that must be inculcated in the minds, minds and conscience of our children. In national affairs, there is a focus on the importance of Rashaya and Wadi al-Taym in consolidating the independence of Lebanon and strengthening national unity among its sons. .
Hamza
gave a speech in which he said: “Researcher Abeer Raydan realized the importance of the social and human wealth that this region possesses throughout the present and history, so she collected from its customs and traditions what she observed in this book, a treasure of knowledge, wisdom and good advice. The future generation has importance about the lessons of science and progress, and preserving them is about preserving a great legacy that has been passed down through generations by historians and researchers. Some of these traditions were unknown to us, so this book came accompanied by pictures, documents, documents and rare manuscripts that illuminate the uniqueness of each village and town in this region. The beloved, and most importantly, it was received objectively, accurately and honestly, which is characteristic of the insatiable researcher who strives to research according to a precise scientific methodology.
He saluted the researcher for her efforts, “until the book came out with this valuable formula as a reference for every researcher about the wealth of this benevolent region and its historical facts.”
And it was a speech by Judge Abdul Rahman Sharqieh in which he said: “Abeer went out to express not only herself, but the deprived, the oppressed, the oppressed and the forgotten, to write with her fingers a history that brings man back to the reality of the past, to show that what is happening today is what happened yesterday, time is a wheel and history repeats itself, the state of injustice An hour and the state of truth until the hour comes.” He added, “I broke the bottle, O Abeer, and the desire of the bottle, so I went out to this wide space to express the daughters of Rashaya and Wadi Al-Taym, the girls of the villages, to talk about Salha, who shook with her manners, gratitude and purity the pillars of this society.”
He added: “We need today the likes of this girl who paved the way from a house of faith and piety, guidance and struggle, from a house that bears responsibility for his village, his family and his community to express these opinions and transcend these ideas to tell us that the occupier is no matter how long his life is and that the colonizer is no matter how long his nails are and no matter how strong his fangs are, our rocks and mountains And our castles are against him.
Abeer Tell your Rafiqatk for all women Rashaya that today is intended for our nation of evil and remain on the stand row hidden Bastar sectarianism, racism and tribalism, they want to we fight and be on the sidelines of life. ”
He concluded:” The Rashayya castle of freedom, heroism, sacrifice, redemption and independence, which was yesterday considered Our region is like the Suez Canal between East and West, between civilizations, between Palestine and the world.”
The judge
and the Deputy Interior Minister of the Southern Bekaa in the Progressive Socialist Party Rabah Al-Qadi delivered a speech in which he pointed out that “many thinkers, scholars and wise men spoke about the history, civilization and culture of peoples, and among the most prominent of what I read was what the martyr teacher Kamal Jumblatt wrote in his famous article (A Letter to the Wounded Country) as if He is speaking today when he said: “From the heart of the tumultuous battle around me, the battle of politics, ambiguity, fraud, elections, and those farce that charlatans represented, so we became ashamed of their repetition and repetition in front of the world.” past and future, overlooking us like the face of a nail.”
And he continued: “Yes, dear beautiful and elegant audience, despite all crises, life is stronger than everything, and it is a pleasure for us in the Kamal Jumblatt Social Cultural Center in Rashaya to host this exceptional event in an exceptional time, and we believe with confidence that the history of every nation and every nation is a continuous line. , the line may ascend or descend, and it may rotate around itself or bend, but it does not stop, and if history appears to be no more than news, but in its interior is consideration and investigation, and this is what the distinguished professor Abeer Raydan sought in her book on the region. A word of sincerity and a slogan of sincerity, not false, misleading, totalitarian, unjust slogans that wreak havoc in the minds and hearts of some, for in truth we live, and never by bread alone. harsher.”
Reidan
In turn, the writer Reidan gave a speech in which she said: “Your presence today removed me from fatigue and hardships and searches for many years, and I put them between the pages of this four hundred and four page book based on more than one hundred and fifty written sources and references, in addition to documents, manuscripts and archives that I did not obtain except after an effort.” I worked hard, and I made field tours in various villages to stand on the opinions of those who have knowledge and knowledge from all spectra of credibility and upgrading the required level. It played an important role from the era of the first human being who took its caves as his shelter to the era of writing, starting with the Pharaonic civilization and the subsequent Roman, Arab, Ottoman and independence. The Rashaya region was briefly outlined in its pages at each stage, and the book carried images of culture, values, behavior, customs, traditions and proverbs with live interviews.
And she continued: “Since the Rashaya Al-Wadi region is a religious diversity and a civilized and cultural coexistence, its people lived since ancient times far from sectarian fanaticism and religious puritanism and did not differentiate between one sect and another, united by the love and defense of the homeland. who took office.
She added, “My book is directed to every student of knowledge and is not restricted to a segment, generation, group or region. It is the memory of a nation in all its shades, and a documentation of information that almost vanishes with the departure of a generation of adults.”
And she continued: “I chose this center to present to you this work so that the signature coincides with the memory of a contemporary thinker and philosopher who carried the message of man and contributed to the establishment of national values. and with the outside world.”
Raydan received an honorary shield from the Progressive Women’s Union in her town of Tanura, in the presence of Abu Faour, and signed its author to attend, followed by a cocktail party on the occasion
Source: National News Agency