DOHA: Katara's festivities during the Asian Cup Qatar 2023 continue, with a significant public turnout and attendance, as well as guests and tourists appreciating and enjoying the fantastic organization and numerous events that blend entertainment, art, culture, and heritage. Visitors commended Katara's unique parts and rich program, which celebrated the Asian football festival and provided them with an opportunity to discover about Asian cultures and arts.
On the other hand, the 4th edition of the Katara International Amber Exhibition concluded on Thursday, amidst a remarkable turnout by the exhibition's visitors and audience, who expressed their great happiness with the exhibition's unique and precious amber exhibits and collectibles, which meet the aspirations of merchants, hobbyists, and those interested in amber's heritage and culture. They emphasized that having the exhibition at Katara is particularly significant since it emphasizes the celebration of the amber legacy and its historic traditions, applauding the excellent planning, preparation, and quality services offered to traders and tourists alike.
Muhammad Mustafa, supervisor of one of the workshops at the exhibition, expressed his happiness to participate in the exhibition, noting that his workshop specializes in making rosaries at the level of Qatar, pointing out that there are many stages related to this industry that require superior skill, such as cutting and slicing amber stones into small pieces, then perforating and turning them according to the required sizes, then polishing them, and then forming the He stated that the show has diversified, precious, and rare collections of the greatest rosaries and amber stones of various sorts and hues, as well as an elite group of trained artisans and laboratories to analyze their type and quality.
Katara Publishing House library
In a related context, the Katara Publishing House library has received a large audience at its headquarters in Building 39 since the start of Katara events during the Asian Cup 2023, as the library includes 15 Qatari publishing houses in addition to Katara Publishing House, and the best-selling books during the first week of events are heritage books and Arabic novels in Arabic and English.
In addition to three other book pavilions scattered across Al-Hikma courtyard, in front of Building 22, and on Ibn Al-Rayb Cultural Street, Katara Publishing House had set up a pavilion in the 4th edition of the Katara International Amber Exhibition, where it unveiled its most recent publication, "Amber...the flower of precious stones and a window to ancient times," by Hamad bin Saleh Al-Sulaiti. It also set up a pavilion specifically for children's books and toys in the square across from Al-Gannas Association.
It also received numerous invitations to participate in school activities for Reading Week, including a school operetta titled "Qatari Stories in Postage Stamps," which was inspired by the title of one of Katara Publishing House's publications and written by Khaled Abdul Rahim Al-Sayed, Katara Publishing House consultant.
On this occasion, Amira Ahmed Al-Muhannadi, Director of Katara Publishing House, stated that the Dar Library's initiative to launch the school visits programme helped to consolidate relationships with schools at various stages, which is consistent with the Dar's goals of encouraging reading as one of the most important means of intellectual and cognitive advancement.
