The sheikh zayed award in childrens literature for title the house and the palm tree the etisalat award for arabic childrens book. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the uaes many gifts. Here are the winners of the sheikh zayed book awards, one. Recipients of zayed book award announced the national. The announcement was made during a meeting of the awards committee during the abu dhabi international book fair. Sheikh zayed city is situated about 20 km 12 mi from lebanon square in the mohandiseen district of giza. You can nominate your book for next years cycle from may 1st oct 1st. Tamayouz excellence award 2015 honorary phd from coventry university 2015. It is presented yearly to arab writers, intellectuals, publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched arab cultural, literary and social life.
Organizers of the sheikh zayed book award szba today. Rashid al arimi, secretary general for the sheikh zayed book award addressed social diversity and the arabic language. The ministry of education award at the competition for developing arabic primary one curricula. Lightfoot, pritzker and holierthanthou political hypocrites. Sheikh zayed book awards singles out the grand imam of egypts alazhar religious institution for his leadership in encouraging moderation and tolerance mohammed eissa in abu dhabi, tuesday 30 apr. His highness sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, uae vice president, prime minister and ruler of dubai, has directed the honouring of pioneering personalities and initiatives in tolerance in conjunction with uae year of tolerance and the uae 48th national day. Sheikh zayed book award ninth session winners announced. Kennedy, who has been teaching at nyu abu dhabi since 2008, analysed five. N ow in its 12th year, the sheikh zayed book award announced. Plagiarism here, plagiarism there, plagiarism everywhere.
Sheikh mansour bin zayed opens uae national identity. It is a prestigious literacy award for outstanding writers, intellectuals, publishers, and young literary talent, with. Within the scope of tarjuman, he has translated several books into arabic, notably anthony giddenss sociology for which he won the prestigious sheikh zayed book award for translation in 2008. On wednesday 12th march 2008, the uaes deputy prime minister, hh sheikh hamdan bin zayed al nahyan, honoured winners of the second edition of the zayed book award at a ceremony at the prestigious emirates pal. Sheikh zayed book award opens nominations for 2009. The call for nominations comes after the successful concluding of the awards grand ceremony to celebrate the winners of its 11th. Sheikh zayed book award to host celebration of arabic. Two of the 2008 sheikh zayed book award winners, whose work was judged to have contributed to the arab worlds cultural development, were based in europe. The sharjah childrens book award for the optically challenged reader award for the title basmas eyes 2012. The committee in charge withdrew the award yesterday, saying the book contained wrongful appropriation of other authors thoughts, ideas, and expressions, and the representation of them as ones own original. His highness became the ruler of sharjah and its dependencies. Sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, founder of the uae. He worked also with leading companies and interdisciplinary engineering firms in the region.
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On wednesday 12th march 2008, the uaes deputy prime minister, hh sheikh hamdan bin zayed al nahyan, honoured winners of the second edition of the zayed book award at a ceremony at the prestigious emirates palace. The 14th sheikh zayed book award will stream a live digital event from abu dhabi on april 16 in honor of its 2020 winners. Chadirji award for lebanese students of architecture 20002025. In 2010, a talented emirati writer, qais sedki, won the award for his sewar al dahab gold ring published by uaebased page flip, 2008. Banipal wins the 2020 sheikh zayed book award for publishing. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the most prestigious and wellfunded prizes in the arab world. The sheikh zayed book awards, among the most esteemed and lucrative literary prizes in the arab world, recognized winners across seven categories today. Abu dhabi classics promotes arabic and western classical music to the people of abu dhabi. Published by the egyptian lebanese house, cairo 2019. An email will be sent confirming a successful online nomination once 5 copies of the book are received by the award. Organizers of the sheikh zayed book award szba today announced the winners in seven categories of their 14th annual prize. The sheikh zayed book award is an independent cultural initiative administered by department of culture and tourism abu dhabi. All spring, abu dhabis airport, shopping malls and heavily chandeliered luxury hotels have been plastered with golden banners announcing the secondlargest book award in the world. The sheikh zayed book award was established in memory of the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan.
The sheikh zayed book award honours the outstanding achievements of innovators and thinkers in literature, the arts and humanities in arabic and other languages. Most of nominations received came from tunisia, egypt, morocco and l. Launched in 2006 and covering nine categories, the award promotes creativity, advances arabic. Ya in 2008, the middle east council best literature book award in 2007, and an. Sheikh zayed book awards young author award winner tells story of his journey from poet to philosopher. Towering figure of arabic literary world honoured in. Send 5 copies of your book to sheikh zayed book award hq.
Dubai international airport won the award for the middle easts leading airport in the 2012 world travel awards. The annual awards aim to recognise some of the most challenging and exciting work coming out of the arab world or engaging with its culture, including both literary and scholarly works. These awards acknowledge literary and academic work, and the 2020 winners come from six countries. His father was the ruler of abu dhabi from 1922 until his death in 1926. The high quality production of the book coupled with its intriguing story plot gained it the recognition it deserved by the sheikh zayed book award judges. Abu dhabi recognizes brills extensive publishing program in middle east and islamic studies with the sheikh zayed book award for publishing and distribution excellence.
The longlist includes 9 titles that were selected out of 151 nominations received in the category. That was a memorable day for both ecssr employees and. Nyu abu dhabi professor wins a sheikh zayed book award. The sheikh zayed book award, which honors the outstanding achievements of innovators and thinkers in literature, the arts, and humanities in arabic and other languages, will host an event in new. Sheikh zayed book award and the cultural renaissance in. Sultan bin muhammad al qasimi is a member of the supreme council of the united arab emirates, the ruler of sharjah, and president of american university of sharjah. Nyuad professor philip kennedy on winning a sheikh zayed book. It is bordered to the north by the cairoalexandria desert road, to the south by the 26 july corridor, and to the west by the neighboring 6th of october the city forms part of the giza governorate, and is divided into 17 residential districts, with four neighborhoods in each. The sheikh zayed book award has announced it is now accepting nominations for its 2018 edition, with submissions accepted until october 1st 2017. Writers, and their publishers and agents, from across the world are now invited to apply across all nine categories of the sheikh zayed book award with aed 7 million gbp. The judges of the annual sheikh zayed book award have withdrawn the prize from this years winning author because of plagiarism. Jawdat fakhreddine is a poet and a university professor.
The zayed sustainability prize, an evolution of the zayed future energy prize, is the uaes pioneering global award in sustainability and a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the uae, sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan. Abu dhabi, united arab emirates continuing on its success in delivering interactive seminars during the adibf, the sheikh zayed book award, celebrated as the most important cultural event in the arab region, hosted today the. The sheikh zayed book award szba has announced its literary and art criticism longlist for the thirteenth edition 20182019. Fayiz suyyagh director turjuman foundation linkedin. The emirates centre for strategic studies and research won the sheikh zayed book award in the category of publishing and technology in 2008. Emirates centre for scientific research and studies. As a visionary and conceptual designer raed worked with awardwinning architects including dr. The sheikh zayed book award commemorates the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, founding president of the uae and ruler of abu dhabi. Sheikh zayed book award longlist announced for literary. In the company of weapons and the moon 1976, his unequalled beauty 1984, trilogy of the sultans alley 2000, white people 2011, february love 2014, strand of the spirit 2015, longlisted for the 2016 sheikh zayed book award, and the sniper and the palace 2017. Recipients from six different countries uk, us, the netherlands, iraq, tunisia and palestine were awarded the sheikh zayed book awards. The award is presented every year to outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers, as well as to young authors who have contributed to the enrichment of arab literature through their written and translated works. The sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, has announced the winners of its 14th. His highness sheikh mohammed to award pioneering personalities and initiatives in tolerance.
He was awarded the sheikh zayed book award in 2014. The post sheikh zayed book award sets winners digital ceremony for. His highness sheikh mohamed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, with participants of the sheikh zayed book award wam. The sheikh zayed book award honours the outstanding achievements of innovators and thinkers in literature, the arts and humanities in arabic and other.
Born around 1918 in abu dhabi, sheikh zayed was the youngest of the four sons of his highness sheikh sultan bin zayed al nahyan, ruler of abu dhabi from 1922 to 1926. In its first edition in 2008, abu dhabi classics recorded an attendance of. International outreach has always been one of the key objectives of sheikh zayed book award, and it has indeed made significant inroads towards fulfilling this objective. The winners of the 2017 to 2018 sheikh zayed book award, which aims to promote scholarship and creativity in arab culture, have been announced. Zayed was the youngest of four sons of sheikh sultan bin khalifa al nahyan. At the time of sheikh zayeds birth, the emirate was poor and undeveloped, with an. There is much to do in the uae beyond dubai and abu dhabi. Born in 1948 in the fezzan region, ibrahim alkoni was brought up on the tradition of the tuareg, popularly known as. By hannah johnson this article is sponsored by the sheikh zayed book award. Mohamed receives winners of sheikh zayed book award news. The award has been quite active in participating in. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the most prestigious and wellfunded prizes in the. Sheikh zayed book award sets winners digital ceremony for thursday.
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