The program opens its episodes with "The Eternal Language" by Mohammed bin Rashid

A Saudi is the first to qualify in “Prince of Poets 10”

• The participating poets are still facing a great challenge to prove their ability to approach the title.

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• Emirati opera singer Fatima Al-Hashemi presented the poem "The Emirates salutes its people."

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With the words of the poem “The Eternal Language” of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the first live broadcast of the “Prince of Poets” program in its tenth season was launched yesterday evening, at Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi. Through Baynunah and Abu Dhabi channels.

The episode witnessed a celebration of one of the symbols of poetry in the Emirates, the late poet Sultan bin Ali Al Owais, on the anniversary of his death.

The episode also included the presentation of a report that shed light on the position of Abu Dhabi, which was able to restore its brilliance to poetry through the Prince of Poets program, reviewing the program’s continuous march for a decade, so that the Prince of Poets convoy continues looking for a future prince who writes his poems and dreams through the first and largest program of its kind for poetry. Al-Arabi, at the first poetry theater, Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi.

The Saudi poet Ibrahim Halloush was able to register his name as the first to qualify in the program for the next stage, after obtaining the highest score from the jury, while the Mauritanian poet Sidi Muhammad Muhammad al-Mahdi, and the two poets Asma Jalal from Egypt, and Dana Abu Mahmoud from Syria, are waiting for the public vote to choose two poets. them to qualify.

Several challenges

For their part, the jury members expressed optimism about the new season of the program, after the Corona pandemic and its repercussions receded.

Considering that poets are facing a great challenge to prove their poetic abilities, and to continue enriching the poetic arena with their poems.

The head of the Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, Dr. Ali bin Tamim, said: “The challenge before us is to continue to revive the imagination of the Arab taste, because imagination leads to creativity, and we are in the challenge because we are in front of a group of poets who underwent auditions until they reached this stage.”

While Professor of Modern Literary Criticism at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, Dr. Amani Fouad, expected that the season would be rich in poetry and ideas, and that a new system be added to the program through young poets who would add something new to Arabic poetry.

Professor of Semiotics and Discourse Analysis at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Dr. Mohamed Hajjo, reviewed some of the challenges that the program has overcome, the most important of which is its continuity despite the Corona pandemic and its success par excellence, the challenge of geography and distances, and the challenge of time and circumstances, adding: “All these challenges are overcome by the program and its people from Poets and curators, with determination and ability ».

The first episode of the program presented this year by the media, Jane Omran, and the media, Issa Al Kaabi, provided lighting on the scenes, presenting a report on the mechanism of competition to reach the title of the emirate, as the program’s episodes are divided into a first stage, at the end of which 15 poets qualify, and a second stage, at the end of which six qualify. Poets, and a third stage in which the six poets compete for positions from the sixth to the first place, where the program management presents a prize of one million dirhams to the first place holder, in addition to granting him the title of Prince of Poets, a cloak of poetry, and the Principality Seal, while the winner of the second place gets 500 thousand AED 300,000 for the third-place finisher, AED 200,000 for the fourth-place finisher, and AED 100,000 for the fifth-place finisher.

• The episode celebrated the late Sultan bin Ali Al Owais, one of the symbols of poetry in the Emirates.

between public and private interests

The poems presented by the poets participating in the episode varied between public and private concern. The poet Ibrahim Halloush presented a poem entitled "Mansriba in the Trees of Absence", which he drew from the biography of the poet Abi Ala'a Al-Ma'arri.

The poetess Asmaa Jalal tended to reveal the interior in her poem, “There is no love like it.”

As for the poet Dana Abu Mahmoud, she evoked in her poem “Under the Roof of the Wind” the scene of the death of the child Ilan, documenting with the camera’s eye the tragedy of Syrian children in death by drowning and starvation.

The poet, Sidi Muhammad Muhammad al-Mahdi, recalled the biography of al-Hallaj in a poem entitled “Dissolving in the Clashes of Love.”

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