Doha: The Ministry of Culture (MoC) represented by the Qatari Publishers and Distributors Forum, will organise today, in cooperation with Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), affiliated with Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), will organise the second edition Doha Publishing Fellowship Program (DPFP), which will last for three days via visual communication technology.
More than forty Qatari, Arab, and foreign publishers representing more than thirty countries around the world will participate in the second edition of the program, which is dedicated to publishers of children’s books due to the importance of this age group, which requires the efforts of all cultural parties to support and diversify their cultural product.
In interaction with the objectives of the Qatari Publishers and Distributors Forum and the MoC, the DPFP aims to develop the publishing and cultural exchange movement, exchange rights between Qatari, Arab, and foreign publishers, provide an open forum for exchanging experiences in this field, develop joint cooperation by raising the publishers capabilities and capabilities, push forward the publishing industry in the Arab world, as well as promote the launch of a constructive dialogue and bilateral multicultural cooperation, empower the publishing industry and cultural exchange in Doha, and emphasize Qatar’s knowledge and development role in the cultural and literary sectors.
The MoC said in a statement yesterday, that the second edition of the DPFP will include a set of seminars, presented by an elite group of experts in the field of children’s book industry, in addition to holding meetings during which participants exchange experiences and experiences, and the sale and purchase of translation and publishing rights for books Children and young adults.
The ministry stated that the program has sustainable development dimensions, in line with the objectives of Qatar Vision 2030, and at the human level this program represents a call to deal with the peoples of the world from all walks of life with the diversity and difference it represents, where the factor of friction with the other is an incentive to gain experience and self-development in the fields of research, scientific, cultural and intellectual, which makes the State of Qatar an effective center in these areas.
On the social level, the statement said that program enhances openness to the other, and stresses the intensification and strengthening of cultural exchange with Arab peoples and other peoples in general, and economic development remains one of the most prominent points of QNV 2030, as well as the programs vision, where the importance of building a flexible and open knowledge economy is highlighted, based on national responsibility to contribute to the foundations of the national vision.
