Officials expressed their admiration for the Al-Ahsa Manufactured Dates Marketing Festival (Oh, the sweetest dates 2023), which is organized by Al-Ahsa Municipality in cooperation with its partners at the Municipality’s heritage castle and its distinguished organization according to the highest levels. The Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Kingdom, Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah, praised the festival’s innovative date products and the keenness of Al-Ahsa youth to adapt parts of the palm tree in multiple industries linked to the culture and customs of society. Meanwhile, His Excellency the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, Bandar bin Ibrahim Al-Khorayef, said that the creative diversity in the date industry at the Al-Ahsa Dates Marketing Festival is something to be proud of, and that the Ministry is keen to develop and develop this industry in cooperation with the relevant sectors for an important agricultural product that is considered one of the wealth of this generous nation. The CEO of the Quality of Life Program Center, Khaled Al-Bakr, stated that the festival, with the transformational industries of dates and unconventional ideas it contains, represents distinguished efforts by those in charge of it and its participants, including factories, merchants, and craftsmen, in addition to the accompanying activities, expressing his aspirations for the festival to contribute to a qualitative shift in the field of the date industry. The optimal investment for parts of the palm tree. In the interactive kitchen corner, attendees interacted with the preparation of the dish (mamrous), one of the most famous ancient Ahsa dishes served at weddings and events. The kitchen also witnessed the presentation of the “shrimp muhammara with molasses” dish, which consists of rice and shrimp, with the addition of molasses, cardamom and onions, and attracted the product of “rutab ice cream.” Visitors with its distinctive flavor, which is made up of khalas and milk without any additives. In addition, the Abeer Al-Ahsa Fine Arts Exhibition witnessed the establishment of the initiative of the General Administration of Cleanliness in the Al-Ahsa Municipality, represented by an art workshop for children under the slogan (Our Ahsa is clean and colorful), presented by the plastic artist Karima Al-Mesiri, amid remarkable participation from children, where coloring books were distributed to the participants with the aim of viewing pictures and coloring with ideas. Purposeful awareness. The exhibition also witnesses the participation of a number of plastic artists from the Al-Ahsa Culture and Arts Association in direct drawing in front of visitors, and this varies between drawing and Arabic calligraphy. In the heritage village of Al-Amana Castle, the presence of the craftsman Ahmed Al-Baharna, who specializes in the carpentry craft, and his son Abbas, 11 years old, was recorded as an example of preserving this craft after the father passed on his experience to his son. Al-Baharna indicated that he learned the craft by following some specialized craftsmen until he mastered it, noting that using this craft he creates models that combine the past with the present, as well as heritage doors and windows, boxes and other wooden crafts, pointing out that he was keen to teach his son who loves this craft with his interest. He studied it, stressing that handicrafts are a treasure that must be preserved by encouraging everyone who wants to learn them. The Dar Al-Khair Center, affiliated with the Al-Bir Society in Al-Ahsa, plays an important role by introducing visitors to the social services it provides in its areas of specialization, and achieving goals by spreading awareness of interest in and care for God’s blessings, and integration and development in charitable work. The Center carries out several projects, including benefiting from surplus Food (preserving the blessing) and distributing it to the targeted groups of beneficiary families at the governorate level, and also a project to benefit from surplus used clothes (clothing) by investing surplus clothes in outputs that generate returns for the association and its beneficiary families by collecting clothes from containers specially designed for this purpose.