{"id":119367,"date":"2017-11-26T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=119367"},"modified":"2017-11-26T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T17:43:29","slug":"al-assad-national-library-hosts-books-manuscripts-exhibitions-on-occasion-of-culture-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=119367","title":{"rendered":"Al-Assad National Library hosts books &#038; manuscripts exhibitions on occasion of Culture Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA-On the occasion of Culture Day, two exhibitions for books and manuscripts were inaugurated on Sunday at Al-Assad National Library.<\/p>\n<p>The manuscripts\u2019 exhibition included some of al-Assad\u2019s Library most valuable and precious collections, which are of fine calligraphy, precious paper and gold-plated cover.<\/p>\n<p>The presented manuscripts are documenting the cultural heritage of Syria in all its literary and scientific aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Syrian General Organization of Book showcased in the book exhibition its publications from 2009 and till 2017 in addition to samples of the Culture Ministry\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-119367 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-17.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-17-300x191.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-17-300x191.jpg 300w, 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width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-4-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-4.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-3-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-3.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/books-manuscripts-al-Assad-National-Library-exhibtion-2-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" 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The manuscripts\u2019 exhibition included some of al-Assad\u2019s Library most valuable and precious collections, which are of fine calligraphy, precious paper and gold-plated cover. The presented manuscripts are documenting the cultural heritage of Syria in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,115,22],"tags":[9630,4722,863,15081],"class_list":["post-119367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-local","category-slide","tag-books","tag-culture-day","tag-exhibition","tag-manuscripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}