IUG students showing their creativity in a course resulted from a three-continent project to promote dialogue between IUGees and their peers.
A creative writing course has been started on Wednesday 26 June 2019 by Prof. Refaat AlAreer, PhD in poetry, with a view to train a group of IUG senior students in understanding and analyzing the elements of fiction and poetry, making use of them in writing for Palestine and expressing their own ideas. The course attaches great importance to the linguistic, semantic and syntactic features of writing fiction and poetry. As a result, the students are supposed to imitate the rhetoric of great writers so that improve their literary writing style. During the sessions, they will be given the stage for thinking, talking, describing and discussing local issues through their words.
“Show Don’t Tell”
“Show don’t Tell” is the every-session advice that Prof. AlAreer gives to his students whenever they think of the act of writing. He believes, in literature,”showing” is different from “telling” as it gives more details and meanings. In Prof. AlAreer sessions, every beginning of a session must start with pieces of writings for some students, other students have to comment on and demonstrate their ideas. The sessions also include videos, PowerPoints, discussions, comments and new exhibition for literary work.
Facebook Group
Students share their writings, comments and ideas in “Fiction & Poetry from Palestine:” group, where they are followed up by the course lecturer Prof. AlAreer in addition to the project manager Prof. Nazmi AlMasri and Miss. Azza AlSahhar, project coordinator; and the volunteering assistant Mahmoud Usruf.
The hashtag #FictionForPalestine is used to spread and disseminate ideas, quotes, comments all over social media.
This course has been supported by a three-continent project entitled, ” Building an intercultural pedagogy for higher education in conditions of conflict and protracted crises: Languages, Identity, Culture”. The project has been combining four universities from three continents in one cultural platform to study and promote theories and methods of fruitful dialogue between IUG graduates and their peers who have been living under similar conflicting conditions in Palestine, Colombia, Brazil and Turkey. This course is listed under a bunch of activities poured in carrying out the overall project objects.
