Its ninth season kicks off today at Al Raha Beach stage
“Prince of Poets”: 20 poets compete for the scarf of poetry and the seal of the emirate
Poets interviews by visual communication with the jury.
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Al Mazrouei: “Despite the circumstances of the Corona crisis, Abu Dhabi continues to spread the spirit of hope and build bridges in an exceptional season.”
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The first live broadcasts of the "Prince of Poets" program, in its ninth season, will be launched this evening at the Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi through the channels "Baynunah" and "Emirates", which is the largest television competition for eloquent poetry in the Arab world, organized and produced by the "Committee for the Management of Festivals and Cultural Programs." Heritage and Heritage in Abu Dhabi »within the framework of its cultural strategy aimed at preserving cultural heritage, and promoting interest in Arabic literature and poetry.
In a statement, the program revealed the list of 20 poets participating in its ninth season, which included Zainab Jabbar, Nabil Imad Al-Ayyash from Iraq, Mr. Ahmed Al-Alawi from Bahrain, Omar Al-Raji, Abdelhak Adnan from Morocco, Al-Wathiq Younes from Sudan, Hanan Farfour from Lebanon. Abdullah Ali Al Shamsi from the Emirates, Abdulaziz Law from Senegal, Ali Loun from Nigeria, Ahmed Hafez, Muhammad Arab Saleh, Sayed Khalaf Abu Diwan from Egypt, Muhammad al-Turki, Hawra al-Hummeli, Sultan al-Dit from Saudi Arabia, Heba Ramadan Shriqi from Syria, Musab Taqi al-Din From Algeria, Mohamed El-Mami Ould Mohamed Hamed from Mauritania. Add to God Gallo from America.
Issa Saif Al Mazrouei, Vice Chairman of the Committee for the Management of Cultural and Heritage Festivals and Programs in Abu Dhabi, said that the Prince of Poets Program is launching its ninth season in conjunction with the approaching celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the United Arab Emirates, to culminate what the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has presented in light of the vision and ambitions of the wise leadership aimed at developing the content of the programs And its inspiring calls to make 2021 the greatest year in the nation’s march at the start of the new 50 years.
Al Mazrouei affirmed that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has played an important role in enhancing cultural interaction and communication, with the aim of contributing to the delivery of the noble civilizational and humanitarian message to various peoples of the world under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, and with the support of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, who pays great attention to the programs of preserving, caring and preserving Arab heritage for future generations.
He explained that the program - over the course of eight seasons in which it achieved wide audiences - continued to embrace the creators in the sky of eloquent Arabic poetry, and to pour new blood into it, stressing that the capital Abu Dhabi was and still is the emirate of poetry and the dream of poets, and that the Prince of Poets program, which was launched from Abu Dhabi in 2007, continues the march His success over 14 years, and today it celebrates its ninth season, continuing to carry the message of advancing eloquent Arabic poetry, promoting it and its poets, promoting it in Arab circles, and reviving its positive role in the march of Arab culture.
The Vice-Chairman of the Cultural and Heritage Festivals and Programs Management Committee in Abu Dhabi indicated that the program, in its ninth season, witnessed crucial poetic competitions in the first recording episodes, during which the participants' interviews were reviewed by direct visual contact with the jury, and a group of creative poets and poets from Arab and foreign nationalities participated in them. , Who presented their best, and competed strongly, and their eyes looked forward to the title of Prince of Poets, the ring and the rose of the emirate.
He added that despite the circumstances of the Corona crisis that the world is witnessing, Abu Dhabi continues to spread the spirit of hope and build bridges in an exceptional season in which it employed modern technologies to confront Corona in a creative way, during which it was able to overcome challenges by opening other windows by meeting the participants wherever they are to contain their talents and weave Their hopes, so that the "Prince of Poets" would continue his career, during which he was able to embrace connoisseurs of poetry of various shades and angles, and to draw a renewed story and a new creative chapter entitled The Epic of Poetry and the Emirate.
He explained that, due to the circumstances of the Corona pandemic, poets in the first stage sent their contributions through video clips that were followed by the jury and evaluated them, in addition to communicating with the participating poets, and interviewing them directly.
For their part, the members of the jury, namely: Dr. Ali bin Tamim, president of the Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, critic Dr. Salah Fadl, President of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Egypt, and Dr. Abdul Malik Mortad, President of the Supreme Council for the Arabic Language in Algeria, confirmed that the ninth season has the presence of Talented poets, and good poems in terms of diversity in the aesthetics of poetic values and creativity, which heralds a rich season full of competition and poetic tender distinguished by its content, ideas and images.
For its part, the jury of the Prince of Poets Program ended the poets ’interviews, selected a list of 40 poets, and then made direct contact with the poets concerned to invite them to intensive tests, including“ improvisation ”. For this purpose, the jury pulled an envelope with a verse inside it randomly. And the poet should write two verses of the same weight and rhyme in a period not exceeding three minutes, after which the list of 20 poets and poets who will compete on the Al Raha Beach stage in the capital Abu Dhabi has been determined.
Awards and figures
The winner of the title of "Prince of Poets" gets the hair shaft and the emirate's seal, in addition to a cash prize of one million dirhams, while the second receives 500 thousand dirhams, and the third receives 300 thousand dirhams, provided that a prize of 200 thousand dirhams is awarded to the fourth-place holder, and 100 thousand dirhams to the winner. Fifth place, and 50 thousand dirhams for the sixth place winner.
The largest television competition for eloquent poetry in the Arab world, which aims to preserve cultural heritage.
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