Council for Culture Puts Efforts to Empower Youth, Combat Extremism

The Supreme Council for Culture is striving hard to combat terrorism, empower youth, and to promote Egypt's civil society.

Dr. Inas Abdel-Dayem, the Minister of Culture, accompanied by Dr. Ashraf Subhi, Minister of Youth and Sports, attended the first meeting of the members of the Supreme Council for Culture, under the general secretariat of Dr. Hisham Azmi.

It is worthy of note that the Council for Culture was reformed, including 60 personality and symbols of thought, literature, culture and arts.

The members, who represent the enlightened minds of Egypt and the country's tools for development, discussed many important cultural and artistic issues. The meeting also included mechanisms to implement those issues on the ground with a new modern vision that suits the requirements of the time.

They also discussed the amendment of the internal regulations of the council and the reconstitution of its members and permanent committees.

A number of suggestions were proposed concerning the state's cultural strategy through the preparation of the national project of Egyptian culture to change the cultural reality.

These suggestions aim at reviving the Council to realize the following goals: play its real role in participation actively in confronting extremism, organize youth prizes as the cultural future of Egypt, promote intellectual, literary and artistic creativity, to realize the cultural component in the vision of Egypt- 2030, to establish the rules of cultural policies for realizing the social awareness suiting the national ambition, and to develop the means of communication between civil society institutions and the Supreme Council of Culture to achieve positive results that help in promoting community service.

The suggestions also incorporated utilizing modern technological means and the use of smart power to launch platform to display and present all the activities of the Ministry of Culture.

Furthermore, the meeting ended with the need to hold regular meetings for the members of the Council. They members decided to hold a meeting on Sunday 23 June to discuss "The State Awards".