Dr. Khost lecturers on Zionism’s role in fighting Arab national identity

The Archaeology and its role in protecting the national identity was the title of a lecture delivered Sunday by the Syrian author Dr. Nadia Khost at the headquarters of the Syrian Arab Popular Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People and Resistance.

The author stressed that the Zionist thinking founded world and Arab studies and researches centers within the framework of the so-called the ‘ soft war’ in order to prove the allegations of the Zionist existence in the region and to support cultural and media platforms that work for removing the Arab identity from our archaeology and linking it to foreign civilizations.

“The old Arab cities, which are a reservoir of archaeology and civilization, have exposed to a western systematic attack that seeks to obliterate its landmarks,” Dr. Khost said, referring to the dangerous role of the French Engineer Michel Ecochard, who drew blueprint for organizing the cities of Damascus and Beirut through destroying ancient monuments, such as the Damascus municipality building from which Syria’s independence was announced.

She called for adding Syrian archaeology to curriculums to enrich the memory of the students.

On her part, the author Colette Khoury said that the oil capital- in reference to gulf countries-  has sought to distort the image of Damascus and the Syrian woman and to consolidate the obscurantist thinking through producing  television works that achieve this goal.

While the cultural advisor in the Iranian Embassy in Damascus Mustafa al-Shirazi affirmed that all religions fight against extremism.

Basma Qaddour