Sharjah 24: Within the activities of the Sharjah Cultural Salon, the Cultural and Media Office of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Sharjah, organised a forum on “Cultural Media and Technology Challenges, Visual Media as a Model", at Sharjah House of Wisdom, hosting Brewin Habib, media personality. The forum was moderated by Emirati media professional, Safia El Shehhi, and attended by Salha Ghabesh, Head of the Cultural and Media Office of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Sharjah, a number of writers, poets and media college students.

The Forum highlighted the weak cultural programmes due to the low production level, and the focus attracting advertisements, stressing that the decline of cultural programmes contributed to the decline in knowledge.

The forum stressed that culture, in general, in the Arab region is still protected by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, who has been providing the best for more than 40 years, based on His Highness’s philosophy that the progress of nations stems from building the human being.

Brewin Habib blamed the social media, which put the cultural issue at the end of priorities, and steeling TV thunder.

Brewin Habib talked about her career with the culture and media, her beginnings with Bahrain TV in the 1990s, and moving to Dubai TV in the UAE, since 1999, where she preferred to stay.  She stressed that the UAE is the country of opportunities, and tempts everyone who aspires to a decent and stable life.

She referred to the cultural programmes that she has presented on Dubai TV, starting with the program “We meet” and “Helw Elkalam”, stressing that she is mainly concerned with TV culture, despite the fact that cultural programmes lack budgets.

Brewin Habib concluded that through cultural programmes that she presented, she introduced the viewers to the greatest figures of Arab poetry, art and culture, such as Hanna Mina, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, Asaad Fadda, Jawad Al Asadi, and other intellectuals.