The Minister of Culture and Information, Iyad Madani will open here on Wednesday evening the first session of a meeting convened by the Ministry to form a cultural strategy project. In a statement to The Saudi Press agency, he said that the upcoming meeting is an extension to the first meeting of intellectuals convened in Riyadh in 2005, which formed the nucleus of the draft of the Ministry on the Cultural Strategy project. One of the most prominent issues addressed in the strategy are the principles and points of the strategy; the intellectual rights and his role in development. "It focuses also on the reality of cultural institutions and their future; literary clubs, public libraries and cultural societies; Arts, Art Studio and performing arts, folk arts and cultural industries namely books, periodicals, journals, in addition to scientific and cultural role of women and children's culture and foreign cultural relations," Iyad Madani noted. --MORE
