The Culture and Arts Club in Sabya held a dialogue session this evening titled "The Development of Literature and Education in Jazan Region in the Saudi Era", featuring Shura Council member Dr. Hassan bin Hijab Al-Hazmi and Dr. Ibrahim bin Mohammed Abu Hadi, Secretary-General of the Jazan Award for Excellence and Creativity. It is part of the club's cultural programs on the region's history and literature.

The speakers traced how formal schooling began in the region and moved from traditional forms of learning to institutional education, starting with the opening of Jazan's first primary school in 1355 AH. Today the region has 2,618 schools, with more than 364 thousand male and female students taught by more than 30 thousand teachers.

They also reviewed the growth of higher education up to the founding of Jazan University in 1426 AH and its role in widening access to university study and research, as well as how the spread of education produced educated generations who strengthened cultural life across the region's cities and governorates.

On the literary side, the session looked at the old roots of the scholarly and literary movement in Jazan, the role of Quran schools (kuttab), mosques and scholars' homes in spreading knowledge, and how the movement grew in the Saudi era with the rise of scholars and writers and the development of local authorship.

The session stressed the importance of documenting this journey and connecting new generations with the region's literary and educational history.