Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has launched a special ceremony in Laysen Valley, Riyadh, to celebrate the successful end of the Year of the Camel initiative, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
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.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture, the festival featured various activities celebrating camels and their significance in Saudi cultural history.
The ceremony started with a promising visual presentation of Alheda’a, a significant element of Saudi heritage recently inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Furthermore, the event showcased a visual presentation summarizing the achievements of the Year of the Camel and shedding light on the ministry’s pivotal efforts throughout the year.
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.
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