Write Your Life Story: Memoir is a course in the Creative Writing and Authorship track, delivered by Al Qurain Training Center in Doha, Qatar, and taught by the author Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb. It focuses on recalling memories, choosing the milestones and writing them as scenes in Modern Standard Arabic, and ends with a certificate of completion in cooperation with the International Business Council.
After this course, you will be better prepared for
- Recalling memories through guided questions and exercises.
- Choosing and ordering the milestones worth writing about.
- Writing a memory as a living scene instead of a general summary.
- Organising your chapters into an outline you can keep working from after the course.
Who is this course for?
- Retirees and older people
- Anyone who wants to leave their story to their children and grandchildren
- People writing the life story of a parent
- Professionals writing about their working life
What do you receive?
- Course materials and prompts for recalling memories
- An applied project: one chapter of your life story and an outline of the rest
- Short writing exercises at a calm pace, with the trainer's notes
- A certificate of completion from Al Qurain Training Center, in cooperation with the International Business Council
Why this programme?
Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb has led the workshop "My Observations and Life Story" and has published eight books. She helps you write your memories in your own voice, in clear Arabic your children and grandchildren can read.