Cairo, October 17 (BNA) Dr. Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director of Isa Cultural Center, participated in the Arab Documentation Day celebration at the League of Arab States in Cairo.
In a welcoming speech, Sheikh Khalid quoted His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa as saying, “If civilization is the daughter of history, history is the record of civilization, its writer, and its court,” which His Majesty the King highlighted as the crown prince. The first issue of Al-Watha magazine was published in 1982. It is issued by the Historical Documentation Center.
Sheikh Khalid said, “This saying had a significant impact on placing history in the considerations of cultural and social life in Bahrain, especially when we talk about a historical extension of the kingdom dating back more than 5,000 years.”
He stressed the importance of history in linking civilizations and bridging gaps, as it is a necessary human function in the current era, subject to fraud and deception to destroy nations and states and stir up strife between peoples and societies.
Sheikh Khaled called on the Arab institutions concerned with historical documentation and archiving to review the legislation on the security and protection of historical documents in light of the technical development in the media and communications that changed the methods of historical and informational tradition.
He also called on Arab historians to unite and preserve codification and documentation.
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