President Saleh orders authorities to turn historical buildings to cultural centers

SANA'A, March 19 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh
has ordered the concerned authorities
to prepare a house of Yemeni writer Ahmed Ba Kathir and the palace of
al-Rannad to become two cultural development centers.
The two would-be cultural centers would be a basis to attract young
people and rehabilitate them in various areas of cultural and knowledge
development.
Muath al-Shihabi, executive director of Tarim, the Islamic culture
Capital 2010, said that the executive office of Tarim would receive next
month the palace after the restoration
ends to become the largest center for cultural development in Yemen.
''The historical fort and palace of al-Rannad will be called the
al-Rannad Center for Cultural Development and will include many cultural
and creative departments'', al-Shihabi
added.
As part of a plan of Culture Ministry to implement the directives of
President Saleh, al-Shihabi said that the executive office of Tarim had
received the house of the late
writer Ali Ahmad Ba Kathir in Seyun town after the end of the
restorations to become the Center of Ali Ahmad Ba Kathir for Cultural
Development.
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