The Year of the Camel initiative 2024 has participated in the closing ceremony of the 4th National Cultural Awards, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The Initiative has organized an extraordinary pavilion at the King Fahd Cultural Center in Riyadh to showcase the great cultural significance of camels and the strong relationship between camels and Saudis.
The pavilion featured a rock engraving of camels and a screen displaying camel engravings from various regions of the Kingdom.
Camels were a primary means of transportation across vast distances offering a good company to combat the isolation of long journeys. This long companionship has inspired poets and writers to document the camel’s unwavering loyalty to humans through tales, poems and proverbs. Today the camels remain one of the basic elements of Saudi Arabia’s history and civilization.
At the end of 2023, the Saudi Cabinet officially named the year 2024 ‘the Year of the Camel’, celebrating the unique cultural value of camels in the Arabian Peninsula from the dawn of history up to the present day.
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