The Russian State Library continues its policy in popularizing book and reading as well as promoting and enhancing its services in order to attract wider circles of enthusiastic readers.

Online lectures of the RSL Centre of Oriental Literature enable users acquire a new vision of the self-education concept and re-open for themselves a captivating world of book culture and literacy with new unexpected foci.

Thus, in September the RSL COL offers most interesting talks of the invited experts who have acquired your benevolence long before.

Culture, norms, traditions and philosophic symbolism of the Arabic script are all dealt with by Sergey Sorochiyev, orientalist calligrapher and calligraphy teacher of the Qatar Centre of Arabian, in his lectures "Mysterious Language of Colour" , "Norms and Rules of Arabian Art" and "Sacred Semiotics of the Beautiful".

Nikolai V. Polonsky, historian and teacher, specialist in ruling dynasties and member of History and Genealogy Society, the Russian Noble Assembly and the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, is going to make you acquainted with the Sultanate of Oman, the only Arabian sultanate in the world and the only Arabian monarchy which used to be a colonial empire. You will get interesting facts from its history and culture, traditions and economics. The country is likely to be discovered in a new light as an object of tourism in the end. And of course Nikolai Viacheslavovich will speak about the state elite. Then, you will learn why there are no skyscrapers in Oman and which recent exhibitions in Moscow and St Petersburg were devoted to that country.

And finally, a controversial, thought-provoking and encouraging intellectual search lecture “Who invented Hebrew” by specialists of the Judaic Department of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University Margarita Gorbachiova and Roman Romanenko is available over here. They will speak about the modern Hebrew as it is, a language, which is considered to be "restored". Over nine million people speak Hebrew nowadays, and in the year of 2018 the language was officially appointed the only national one in Israel.

More lectures of the Centre of Oriental Literature of the Russian State Library are available on its official VKontakte page now. All the information on the scientific and educational public events of the RSL Centre of Oriental Literature can be viewed on its Telegram channel. Pop up! It’s gonna be interesting!