Yemen at International Conference on BaKathir

SANA'A, May 31 (Saba) - Minister of
Culture Mohammad al-Maflahi led Monday a Yemeni delegation for the International
Conference
on the great Yemeni writer Ali Ahmad BaKathir being held in Egypt's capital, Cairo.
The conference is being organized by the Arab Writers Union in association with the
Muslim Writers Society during May 31-June 03.
Culture Ministers in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates and a number
of Arab authors are attending the gathering highlighting BaKathir art works on the
100th
anniversary of his birth.
The meeting comes ahead of the conference that would be organized by Yemen's
Culture Ministry on the writer within the activities of Tarim the Islamic Culture
Capital 2010,
the minister said.
The ministry is working hard to implement President Saleh's orders to publish all
works of Bakathir and switch his house to a cultural central, he added.
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