On the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the glorious National Independence Day, the Southern Journalists and Journalists Syndicate today, Sunday
at the Syndicate’s headquarters in Al-Tawahi District, organized a symposium entitled “The Role of the Arab and International Thinker Prof. Dr. Abu Bakr Al-Saqqaf in Spreading Enlightenment Thought in Journalism.”
Veteran journalist Radhya Shamshir, a number of journalism and media students, and a group of interested media professionals and journalists participated in the symposium.
At the beginning of the symposium, the head of the Southern Journalists Syndicate, Aidaroos Bahshwaan, gave a speech in which he touched on the stages of the war of the Arab thinker Al-Saqqaf, through which he confronted the Sana’a regime and the reality of tyranny that It dominated the south after unity, the war of invasion, and the occupation of the land of the south.
Bahashwan said that the thinker Al-Saqqaf had the courage in his journalistic presentation and talked about the reality that the south is experiencing and what will come in the future under the unity of tyranny.  

The researcher and historian Najmi Abdel Majeed, head of the branch of the Union of Writers and Authors of the South in the capital, Aden, presented a discussion paper in which he addressed the journalistic and militant roles of the thinker Dr. Abu Bakr Al-Saqqaf, as the historian Najmi spoke about the personality and biography of this Arab thinker and his attempt to spread enlightenment thought in the north during the rule of Afash because he saw and touched another reality governed by the tribe and not the law. The thinker collided with this reality that does not accept that thought, and this attempt exposed him according to what we touched on it. The symposium led to harassment and persecution to the point that he was sent to prison.
In turn, the distinguished journalist Razia Shamshir spoke about the most prominent stages of the enlightenment struggle that was led by the great thinker Abu Bakr al-Saqqaf in the face of the Imamate and tribal system controlling the south.

Mr. Nasr Baghraib, Deputy Secretary-General of the Southern Journalists Syndicate, also referred to the personality of the thinker Al-Saqqaf and the style of his presentation by the enlightening journalist.
Baghraib demanded that the University of Aden take the books and theses of the Arab thinker Al-Saqqaf and adopt it as a curriculum due to their political importance  in the history of the South in the past and future.
The symposium witnessed interaction and discussions by the attendees about the activist journalist Dr. Al-Saqqaf and his journey towards the south and the tribal regimes that ruled the south from the perspective of the imamate and the tribe.