Industry of Digital Cultural Creation at Arab Universities: “Folklore Course” at University of Bahrain as a Proposed Cultural Model

In classical and contemporary Arabic culture, folkloric narratives represent an interdisciplinary discourse, interconnected with different scientific fields. That is to say, it is a matter of aesthetic and cultural contiguity for addressing the questions of margin, corpus, identity, otherness and cultural representations. As a global discourse that is of attractiveness, folkloric narratives have been a special domain, industry of cultural creation; it is the process that constitutes knowledge-based economy despite the speed of cultural globalization and its impact upon heterogeneous societies. This study proposes a digital “interactive” strategy for teaching folkloric narrative course, at the college of arts, the University of Bahrain. The course has engaged with an industry of cultural creation by means of demonstrating the experience of documenting Bahraini folkloric tales achieved by one hundred students, enrolling in the course under the supervision of Dr Dheya Al kaabi. Such folkloric tales are considered as a model of procedural application for transferring folkloric course to the industry of cultural creation, used to conceptualize the courses of folklore at Arab universities that teach the courses in bachelor's degrees of Arabic language and literature.