Nouf Al Mousa (Dubai)
“In the sailing ships race, the search is always evident for the cultural question, which in its human depth represents the essence of societal practice, and a tributary to the dimensions of the marine heritage of the UAE. Standing between them like a maestro, with the entire crew, he sings an existential connection between man and the sea,” says Mohammed Abdullah Hareb, Executive Director of the Dubai International Marine Sports Club.
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Mohammed Abdullah Hareb
private language
Hareb assures Al-Ittihad that the competition of sailing ships in the Al-Qaffal race, despite its sporting importance and its mental and physical effort, in its national and civilized project, reflects a special language that sits in the souls of the people of the sea, and expresses their unique memory.
He continues: “We are in the depths of the race, while the voices rise with supplications and chants, the sources of authenticity of the inheritance are generated in us, whose importance and impact on societal thought cannot be sensed, without the continuity of the experience. Sometimes the stubborn wave, and the submissive one at other times, as the sun of the day testifies to the great solidarity among the sailors, who harmonize in one moment, to achieve the professionalism of victory, which if we approach the scientific and cognitive research, it embodies the spatial expressions of the features of identity, and guides it with a historical perception of the ancient diving journey. In the Gulf, which ends with the name “Al Qaffal”, which has an idiomatic indication of the end of the diving season for the people of the Emirates.
The consolidation of the legacy
Hareb considers that talking regarding the consolidation of the maritime heritage from grandparents and fathers and its transmission to children requires awareness of the details of the development of knowledge media and media technology of what forms of information transmission are, and the importance of keeping pace with development that may cast a shadow on the contents of heritage elements. The development of its work mechanisms, in addition to the use of the organizing committee of the “Al-Qalaf” race, monitoring programs and techniques, which contribute to clarifying the locations of the ships, and facilitating the clarification of the lines of marine paths, which raises the issue of understanding, how to balance the heritage element and technology, without changing the societal practice of the movement of traditional sailing ships. The experience requires that the sailors and the sailors remain in complete confrontation with the difficulties of the wind, that their bodies move in complete harmony with mother nature, and it in itself directs us to strike a balance in our relationship with the marine environment, in addition to respecting the desire of nature in its formation through the monsoon winds, as soon as we return to the stock of The marine heritage, we will notice the depth of the dialogue that unites the people of the sea with nature, they flirt with the wind and the waves, in their poetic poems, and they sing their various melodic sentences in the omnivores, They document it in notebooks and chests. Everything has a name, meaning and meaning. It was gradually transferred through folk tales and proverbs to land. Many people adopted marine connotations as philosophical and intellectual concepts that contributed to the prosperity and openness of the cultural structures of marine communities near the coast.
Study and documentation
Hareb believes that the “Al-Qaffal race” represents a knowledge space, for a live experience, that inspires creators and intellectuals in its various specializations and creative forms. Dubai International Marine Sports, they are ready, to facilitate all they need, at the level of knowledge of the heritage, of information and data related to the public space of diving trips in the ancient Emirates, as well as the experience of the current Nawakhas, and documenting their stories with a family extension, which adds a love that continues to astonish Many visitors to international media agencies, and scholars in the fields of heritage from different countries of the world, who are keen to understand this sport as a societal reflection, bring the issue of cultural exchange between the UAE society and the societies of the whole world close, and some may be surprised, how the rediscovery of the sailing ship race , plays an essential role in defining the heritage, as it is a marine museum open to more than one nationality and culture living on the country’s land, in return, the UAE feels Yin, in being participants in preserving their culture and their humanitarian project in communicating with themselves through their practice of the marine heritage, the responsibility to develop its forms and being aware of the power of its presence in asking questions and understanding the components of society.
sea trace
In the many interpretations of Mohammed Abdullah Hareb, Executive Director of the Dubai International Marine Sports Club, of the forms and details of life on board the ship, in which the number of the crew reaches regarding 30 people, and their permanent relationship to understanding “Al-Dagal”, “Al-Dustour”, “Al-Oud Sail” and “Al-Sator” “The neem,” and other names specific to the components of the ship, which are entrusted to certain people from the crew, have attended the questions regarding how culture shows the impact of the sea environment on the creative product of literary and artistic societies, and what cultural interpretations of the racing of sailing ships can provide, from the dimensions It enhances its position in the daily societal experience, by transforming these heritage sports races into a social, cultural and human forum, and transferring its sports efforts to the forums of public spaces for cultural initiatives, as it is a cultural, social and human act.
