Sweida Cultural Centre hosts a documentary photo exhibition for the presidential election

Sweida (ST): The exhibition hall at the Palace of Culture in Sweida city hosts a documentary photo exhibition covering the presidential elections period.

The exhibition was prepared by Riyad Na’im, who is interested in journalistic documentation, and included about 150 photos that shed light, according to Na’im, on the official and popular activities of Sweida and the participation of the people of the province in the presidential elections, including preparations, popular marches, gatherings and tents of the homeland, up to the polling day and after the announcement of the results and the victory of President Bashar al-Assad and the celebrations held on this occasion.

Naim pointed out that the exhibition aims to document what happened to become a living document for future generations.

The head of the Journalists Union branch in the southern region, the journalist Rafiq Al-Kafiri, indicated that the exhibition documents the popular and mass movement in the governorate during the period of constitutional entitlement.

A number of visitors to the exhibition underlined the importance of the national value of the displayed photos to an important event in the history of Syria, and can be used to achieve communication between the past, present and future, and constitute a documentary archive for this stage.

K.Q.