SOUSSE, Tunisia: There should be further investment in cultural sectors through setting up of cultural channels aimed at promoting the responsible modernist culture to support cultural and artistic creativity by women and society as a whole, Kuwaiti writer Dr. Fatma Al-Ali said on Sunday.Dr. Ali stressed in a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) at the close of the 15th Creative Arab Women Festival the necessity of dealing with what she described as "trends seeking to assassinate man's humanity" through muzzling the latent faculties of creativity.She pointed out that modernism is a humanist movement that believes in the future and seeks to construct it within the responsible freedoms, before adding that the modernist acts of both women and men is of equal importance regardless of the field as it is proof to the transformation of time."Modernism is not a replication of others, but it resembles a large global market where we should shop for what is useful and constructive for human beings and leave what is destructive out of the spirit of responsibility and respect for the values of our communities and their religious, social and cultural specificities," Al-Ali said.In the same context, Al-Ali affirmed that the manifestations of modernism on the Arab landscape go beyond the connotations of the term itself in a way that is somewhat unclear to the Arab public that deems modernism "a concept and practice" that originated in the western world and acquired a global dimension.She also pointed out that Kuwait preceded several countries many decades ago, regarding conscious and responsible modernism, that empowered the Kuwaiti women through a humane, just and civil constitution under an enlightened leadership marked by creativity and excellence in various fields.Al-Ali said that Kuwait's modernism came in total harmony with the Kuwaiti self, values and components of the Arab Islamic identity.The appreciation that Kuwaiti women have in Arab and international gatherings is "additional proof" of this Kuwaiti experience that became a model in the Arab world and the world as a whole.Further, Dr. Al-Ali hailed the recommendations made by this 15th edition of the festival including a number of proposals put forward by the Kuwaiti women delegation such as taking the reader's horizon of anticipation into account when writing.The prominent Kuwaiti writer also stressed the necessity of paying attention to disparity and difference in the margin of freedom enjoyed by women in the Arab societies and their continuing exposure to some hurdles, difficulties "and often violations that seek to deprive them from their right to determine their destiny and express their visions in the field of creativity." She went on to say that such difficulties might be encountered in the most personal issues of women's lives such as "the marriage of underage girls", affirming the necessity of countering such problem.
Source: AlWatanDaily
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