On Sunday, January 31, 2020, the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts held a symposium on the book "A Life Threatening: Dialogues and Diaries of Corona" by the two writers Dr. Abdul Zahra Zaki and Dr. Luay Hamza Abbas, in the presence of the President of Basra University, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, and the patronage of the Dean of the College of Arts Dr. Majid Abdul Hamid Al Kaabi. The session was presented by Dr. Salah Hassan Hawi.
The symposium , presented by a group of researchers, included addressing the literary genre to which this book belongs, the characteristics of the book and the approaches to reading it. The first paper of Dr. Adel Abdul-Jabbar in which he focused on anxiety, postponing death and writing, and then benefiting from the theory of sociologist Edward Hall in the "Hidden Dimension" By creating the link between social distancing and familiarity in writing, Corona documented in "A Life Threatening " imposed social distancing, and the relationship of Luay Hamza Abbas and Abdul Zahra Zaki imposed affection.
The second paper is for Dr. Raed Fouad's who shed the light on the interest in the literary genre and its affiliation with a "Life Threatening" between literature letters, dialogue literature, the quality of diaries, and how to be preoccupied with choosing isolation and designing hope in life.
The third paper is by Dr. Siraj Muhammad, who introduced his perceptions of the inclusive text and the hypotheses of Gérard Ghent on understanding the belonging of this text and its creativity, as it is an objective representation of our threatened lives and an artistic representation of the openness of the text. Then it was the turn of the two writers to talk about the birth certificate of this book. At the end, the participants were honored with certificates of appreciation, and the authors with the university shield for their creativity.
The symposium aimed to introduce literary genres and how to operate them through the movement of reality and creatively translate its implications.
