He affirmed the independence of the committee and the freedom of the participants to choose their topics in the new session
“Prince of Poets”: Tonight is the start of “The Tenth Poem”
Sultan Al-Amimi reviews the details of the new session in the presence of the program's jury.
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Tonight, the first episode of the tenth session of the poetry competition program, the largest of its kind, “Prince of Poets”, will start, which is its first session after completely overcoming the “Corona” pandemic.
The program, which is produced by the Abu Dhabi Festivals and Cultural Programs Management Committee, is witnessing a change in the arbitration committee in the current session, as the head of the Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, Dr. Muhammad Hajjo, and Professor of Modern Literary Criticism at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, Dr. Amani Fouad, who is the first woman to join the committee since the launch of the program.
The Chairman of the Committee for the Management of Cultural and Heritage Festivals and Programs in Abu Dhabi, Commander-in-Chief of Abu Dhabi Police, Major General Staff Pilot Fares Khalaf Al Mazrouei, stated that the program, which was launched in 2007, witnessed the participation of 245 poets from more than 25 countries. During the past seasons, the jury composed tens of thousands of poems by poets from more than 40 countries, so that the program highlights their inspiring role in expressing the human spirit and issues and documenting the place’s diaries and people.
And he added, in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Director of the Poetry Academy, Sultan Al-Amimi, during a press conference held the day before yesterday, at Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi to reveal the list of the 20 poets who qualified for the live TV episodes of the program in its current version, that “the program’s arbitration committee and its advisory committee viewed the participation of Thousands have arrived at the Poetry Academy since the start of the season, and the achievement of these many participations was certainly not a coincidence, but rather a reflection of the great efforts made by the program family, with the aim of reviving the cultural and knowledge heritage.
from their side;
The members of the jury stressed that the committee does not dictate to the participants the topics of their poems, calling on the poets to open up in their poems and express themselves and the issues of their societies, and to introduce new values such as tolerance, rationality, and acceptance of the other.
They recalled the late Dr. Salah Fadl, who had a pioneering role in establishing a number of cultural initiatives in the UAE, and a member of the Supreme Advisory Committee for the program, the critic Dr. Abdul-Malik Murtada, who had a great contribution to introducing the Arabic language and a distinguished participation in the program’s arbitration committee in previous sessions.
Ali bin Tamim said that the program was able, during 15 years, to put poetry at the forefront and restore our relationship with this art, which is the most important art for the Arabs.
The program was also able to form a poetic reference, and gather young people around the Arab Diwan in a contemporary format, whether as participating poets or as an audience of poetry connoisseurs and lovers.
Muhammad Hajjo also called on the poets to open up to themselves and the experiences of their societies in the poems they present, indicating that the committee's role is not to impose themes for the poems on the poets.
He said: «Our role is not to engineer the thought of poets or dictate the topics they address, and we do not want to direct the poets.
Get out of the ordinary and we will follow up on this beauty with criticism.”
The list of poets included Muhammad Mahmoud Mahasneh (Jordan), Najat Ateeq Al-Dhaheri (UAE), Muhammad Al-Youssef (Bahrain), Ahmed Boufahta (Algeria), Abdullah Al-Anzi, Ibrahim Halloush (Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim Touri (Senegal), Sherihan Al-Tayyib (Sudan), Khaled Al-Hassan (Iraq), and Abdul-Wahed Brook ( Morocco), Omar Hussein Al-Maqdi (Yemen), Zakaria Al-Issawi (Tunisia), Aisha Al-Saifi (Sultanate of Oman), Nour Al-Mawsili, Dana Abu Mahmoud (Syrio), Mustafa Muhammad Al-Ghalban (Palestine), Fatima Moftah Hassan Belkhairat (Libya), Ahmed Madani, Asmaa Jalal (Egypt), and Sidi Muhammad Muhammad Al-Mahdi (Mauritania).
Muhammad Hajo:
"Our role is not to engineer the thought of poets...and we tell them: Get out of the ordinary, and we will follow this beauty with criticism."
Ali bin Tamim:
"The program was able to put poetry at the forefront, and restore our relationship with art, which is the most important for Arabs."
With beauty.. not women
Commenting on her participation as the first woman in the “Prince of Poets” jury, Dr. Amani Fouad stressed that the presence of women in any position is the natural thing, especially in light of the active female participation in the competition, not because men cannot judge women’s experiences, for women can And men can because critics start from standards that tend to be scientific, but women are more sensitive in capturing the aesthetics of poetry, indicating that their presence will not be in support of women's participation in the program, but rather for the beautiful poem and the new experience that expresses the street and the society in which it lives.
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