At the invitation of the Union of Arab Publishers attended d. Hossam Badrawi, the Arab Publishers Conference in Sharjah, delivered a speech attached, and visited the book fair.

At the invitation of the Union of Arab Publishers attended d. Hossam Badrawi, the Arab Publishers Conference in Sharjah, delivered a speech attached, and visited the book fair.
Sharjah is a beautiful emirate, and all Emirati women enjoy great politeness, cordiality, and welcoming faces and smiles.
The UAE has received 15 million tourists so far, and statistically it is expected that the number of tourists will reach 22 million
It is twice the number of tourists who visit Egypt, which has more than half of the world’s monuments… It is the smile, affection, tolerance, airport, taxi, cleanliness, respect for visitors’ freedoms and the strict application of the law..
Two things caught my attention, the first of which was that at 11 o’clock the conference stopped to salute the UAE flag, because today is Flag Day. And I learned that all the Emirates stopped at the same moment and stood to salute the symbol of their country, and today evening there are joyful celebrations as well.
The second note was from an Emirati citizen while I was on the Corniche. He came to me saying that he was taking a picture and my face appeared in the background and that he apologized for not asking my permission and would delete the picture because the law prohibits taking pictures of any person without his permission.
Bravo UAE 👏👏
Text of Dr. Badraw’s speech
Arab Publishers Conference in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. (November 2022)
Arabic content industry and post-pandemic challenges
The first session…the second day
The repercussions of the Corona crisis on the publishing and education industry
d word Hossam Badrawi
As in the case of publishing a book between print and digital, the textbook and indeed all education systems have a challenge between the traditional and the digital.
Digital as a concept that merges into the conscience to become a reality and not a means that we use or do not use, as if we have the luxury of choosing.
Wisdom says that in every adversity, there is an opportunity..and it depends on who has the ability to extract opportunities from adversity. We have faced the spread of the Covid-19 virus for two years, and one of the models of resistance was the social divergence that led to the closure of educational institutions and the stay of millions of students and students in their homes, and the educational process almost stopped.
And the talk about digital and distance education with all its inputs went on as a temporary solution, and the value of the electronic calendar appeared for students, and the use of technology to communicate with students increased.
The ordeal stopped the educational system, and it was as if we were in a state of rebooting (rebooting) the entire education system, but it returned to work.. What is new is that stopping taught us a lot that we could not have realized except from the experience of stopping, which no one would have done without what happened..
We have to review ourselves and not go back to doing the same thing again in the same way, waiting for different results, otherwise we would be among the idiots.
Active teachers have recorded educational tapes within the framework of the curriculum and display them on YouTube, and there are many educational platforms that students use on the Internet, and some schools have made an excellent institutional effort to communicate with their students..
The question is, have we taken advantage of the opportunity, in new initiatives to train on innovative learning methods. We have to take advantage of the teachers who have shown the ability and energy to communicate with their students outside the walls of routine and traditional..
We have to encourage young people who have shown the potential of building systems to convert curricula into three-dimensional material in impressive ways, and who have established remote evaluation programs at a small cost.
We must consider the possibility of transforming schools into a mixture of digital, distance and face-to-face education, to reduce the density of classes, and to accommodate new students. Of course, what I am saying here must respect the educational foundations and the importance of being in the school community, but in a new way that may raise the level of school education and increase its splendor and value in building knowledge and creating a normal personality with pleasure that children and students can understand.
Our peoples deserve a real and tangible achievement in the field of education and humanitarian and human development. And out of our belief that the strength of our country lies in the strength of its people, and the strength of its people can only be achieved by continuous work on setting a general framework for development, raising awareness and raising the level of knowledge and skills, and that the only way to achieve this is only through the entrance of education, culture and purposeful media, so we look at the current situation In his optimistic view, as if he had opened a new door for development and modernization.
However, we must take into account that any new vision has no value except with the conviction of society and the commitment of successive governments to apply it and deal with its axes as a constitution, and that this vision must be compatible with the changing reality and the future that we create with our will.
Another point for discussion:
Education is supposed to lead the movement of progress, but in fact the movement of progress preceded the educational institutions in our Arab world, so we are running after what is happening in industry and technology, and not the other way around.
However, those who make progress, invent, innovate and innovate are still scholars and young people who graduate from the education systems and make themselves after that.
When a person buys a computer, it is a piece of iron that has no value except for the software that can be loaded onto it. From 10% of this capacity, it is easier for a person to reuse what he already knows and is comfortable with that. Likewise, the human body without what it contains of spirit, soul and mind has no value, which explains its decomposition and disappearance if it is emptied of the energy of the soul and the mind stops working, which means its death.
The human mind has a gigantic capacity, and we only use 7% to 8% of its programs, and when a person is a genius, he may use 9% to 10% of the capabilities of his mighty mind. The means of development is to use the capabilities of our minds to think and learn knowledge to accommodate what God has created of capacity in our minds that we have not used yet.