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Lebanese mooneh a cultural heritage in need of modernisation
16-11-2017
The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) organized a conference yesterday entitled, ‘The Lebanese Mouneh Heritage: Towards the Modernization of Traditions’ in the presence of agriculture and industry ministers, Ghazi Zeiater and Hussein Haj Hassan. The importance of the workshop, according to the head of Agri-Food Sciences Department, Dr. Marc Bou Zeidan, is in its drawing together the traditions and heritage, like mouneh, on the one hand, and the scientific and applied development of such traditions, on the other. On the occasion, Haj Hassan considered the mouneh as a cultural legacy for Lebanon which is currently endangered. He proposed teaching the subject at the Lebanese universities, especially that the number of women involved in mouneh preparation is declining. He also pressed for registering Mouneh items in international inventories, particularly with the rampant encroachment upon the tradition on part of some countries. Haj Hassan also underlined the specifications of the traditional mouneh demanding setting up special laws to regulate it, and stressing the need to preserve the conventional ways of preparing it. The first day of the event saw the opening of a mouneh fair, to be followed by panels of specialists and experts discussing topics like: mouneh as a means of social development; an overview of the laws and regulations related to mouneh; conventional preparation versus industrial production methods; preservation of the traditional taste and innovative fusion, and finally, youth skills based on entrepreneurship and the home-made preparation of mouneh. The workshop which also includes applied sessions on the production of dairies and pickles, will issue recommendations as well as a vision and strategy for the future. (Al Diyar, November 16, 2017)
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