Ogarit Cultural Center

National Network
Palestine
Address

بعد الاطلاع على الملفات الخاصة بالمؤسسة من قبل وزارة الداخلية تبين ان هذه المؤسسة تم ايقافها عن العمل وانها غير قانونية
بعد الاطلاع على الملفات الخاصة بالمؤسسة من قبل وزارة الداخلية تبين ان هذه المؤسسة تم ايقافها عن العمل وانها غير قانونية
Albania

Telephone
00 972 242 3762
Fax
00 972 242 3762
E-Mail
ogaritcenter@yahoo.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information

Ogarit is mainly a publishing house which publishes Palestinian and translated literature. The center does not need many employees, because its work depends on writers, a committee of readers who approve the scripts. These are writers and critics from outside the staff. There are 5 employees: A director, an accountant, a coordinator, a secretary and a messenger. Most of the budget comes through donors, and a part of it from sails, although most of the books published are granted to libraries in associations and schools. There had been contract between Ogarit and Norwegian Writers Unions from the beginning, which comes to an end 30-6-2009. Ogarit had some other occasional local sources for some of his activities. An addition to publishing books (140 books until now), Ogarit organizes annual conferences and workshops on literary topics and copyright issues, with local and international participants. Our main partners are 3 Norwegian Unions (Authors, Translators and Writers for Children).

Mission and Objectives

Mission: Enabling the Palestinian writer from delivering his/her creative thinking to the Palestinian society, developing his/her individual capacities in communicating with the universal creativity by publishing and translating the creative writing, and promoting reading as a culture on the local level Objectives: 1- Providing an opportunity to publish works of Palestinian writers: by supporting writers in publishing their books and introducing them to different publishing houses, as well as building individual and creative capacities of creative young and women writers. 2- Encouraging reading in the Palestinian society: by providing books for social and cultural institutions in marginalized areas, translating literature from other languages into Arabic, organizing awareness campaigns and coordinating with the MoE. 3- Establishing a Palestinian law that protect the copy rights of writers: by awareness campaigns for writers and politicians, reviewing the proposal of the current law, follow it up, lobbying creative and political key figures, and organizing a general conference on this topic. 4- Building Ogarit organizational, administrative, and financial capacities to accomplish its objectives and to maintain the sustainability of its work: though developing administrative and financial policies and systems, developing partnership and technical and financial cooperation with local and international institutions, developing marketing and distributions policies, developing human resources, and developing planning-monitoring and evaluation system.

Main Projects / Activities

1.Producing 17 books on annual basis 2.Training creative writers (young men + women) 3.providing books for social and cultural institutions 4.launching raising awareness campaigns on reading importance 5.reviewing the current copy rights law

Contact (1) Full Name
Walid Abu Bakr
Head of the organisation
Dr. Faiha ABD Abdulhadi
Contact (2) Full Name
Shireen Shaheen