Muscat, August 24, (ONA) - The Omani Society for Writers and Literati (OSWL), represented by the Studies and Thought Committee, will hold a lecture entitled “Difference Phobia” presented by Saudi critic Muhammad Al-Abbas, on Wednesday at eight in the evening on the Society’s channel on ZOOM, along with a live broadcast on its YouTube and Twitter channels.

The lecture, which will be moderated by the writer Ismail Al-Muqbali, will deal with a group of topics, including the philosophy that elevated difference to the level of value, the role of the text in what is a different structure in deciphering the reservations of the social position, literary texts as discourses of difference, and the similarities that limit the value of difference. It will also discuss the civil society as a scene of difference, the dissolution of difference and the obliteration of identity, difference as an antidote to totalitarianism, and finally the difference fear as a symptom of modern phobia.

(ONA)