Six authors, thinkers and translators win “Sheikh Zayed Book Award”

The Amman-Al-Ghad-Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced the names of the winners in its sixteenth session; The award, organized by the Abu Dhabi Center for Arabic Language at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, received wide participation from the category of young writers from different countries of the world. Six writers, thinkers and translators, in addition to the Library of Alexandria.
Emirati’s poet and novelist Maysoon Saqr won the “Letters Branch” award for her book “Café Feathers, Eye on Egypt”, published by Nahdet Misr Publishing House in 2021. Her story “The Puzzle of the Glass Ball”, published by Dar Al- Saqi in 2021, while author Dr. Mohamed Al-Maztouri from Tunisia won the Young Author Award for his book “Bedouin in Ancient Arabic Poetry”, published by the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities – University of Manouba and the GLD Foundation (Al-Atrash Complex for Specialized Books ) in 2021.
While the award for the “translation” branch was won by Dr. Ahmed El-Adawy from Egypt, who translated the book “The Rise of Humanities in Muslims and in the Christian West”, by George Makdisi, and published by Madarat for Research and Published in the year 2021, from English to Arabic, while the Moroccan author won Muhammad Al-Dahi with the branch award “Arts and Critical Studies” for his book “The narrator and the twin of the soul from representation to synthesis” issued by the Cultural Center for Book, Publishing and General Distribution 2021.
Dr. Mohsen Jassim Al-Moussawi from Iraq / USA won for the branch “Arab culture in other languages” for his book: “One Thousand and One Nights in the Cultures of the Contemporary World: Global Commodity, Translation and Cultural Industrialization”, Dr. published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, the award went to the “Publishing and Cultural Technologies” department of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt.
For his part, Saud Abdul Aziz Al Hosani, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, member of the award’s board, said, “Since its inception in 2006, the Sheikh Zayed Award has worked to consolidate its presence as one of the most important and most prestigious literary and cultural awards at regional and global level.Today, in the sixteenth session, we celebrate a new constellation of creators in various fields and branches who have added new creative results to Arabic literature.We congratulate the winners whose works has helped to convey an honorable picture of the reality of Arab culture to the world. “
For his part, the President of the Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, Secretary General of the Award, Dr. Ali bin Tamim, “The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is one of the most prominent and leading cultural awards in the Arab world, and it helps to give the cultural and creative scenes a lot of knowledge and aesthetics.”