Maitha Al-Khayat, a writer from the United Arab Emirates, is one of the participants at the second International Congress on the Teaching of Literature in English for Youngsters. The sessions will be celebrated on Thursday and Friday (14th and 15th May), in the faculty de Education.
Agustín Reyes, Luis Villacañas and Belén Soler, who are professors of the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature, are the ones to organise the congress, which has as matter the title of “Fostering Cultural Awareness”. Full programme is available by clicking here.
On 2nd April, the United Arab Emirates were invited to the Bologna Children's Book Fair, where president of the United Arabs Emirates Board Books for Young People (UAEBBYP), Marwa Al Aqroubi, was in charge of reading a poetic manifest titled “Many cultures: one history”.
Maitha Al-Khayat, who will speak at the Faculty of Education on Thursday 14th at 11.30h, is the cultural ambassador of UAEBBYP, and one of the most outstanding authors in the field of children and young people's book of her country. Besides the many titles published both in English and in Arabic which deserved several awards, Al-Khayat also actively participates in the promotion for culture and reading for children at the schools of her country. At the conference, “Bridging cultures”, she will spotlight the need of cutting the distances among different cultures from the first moments of reading for children thanks to children’s literature. The literature which deals with pride, respect and tolerance towards their own identity signs and towards other’s.
Her books - I Love My Dad’s Long Beard, My Own Special Way, When a Camel Craves Logaimat, The Runaway Louse, I Love My Mum’s Pretty Veil or I Love Ramadan - are examples of the intercultural dialog this congress wishes to study and in which it is necessary to go into detail about this second decade of the third millennium.
Last update: 13 de may de 2015 11:00.
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