Five poets win cultural prizes for Muscat Festival

Ahmed bin Saif Al-Hinai-Muscat

The Cultural Committee of the Muscat Festival of 2019, in cooperation with the Omani Association of Writers and Writers, honored the five poets who won the annual poetry contest to support the Omani poet and make him present at this event, which is the most prominent of the media momentum.

Seventy-seven poets competed in the category of poetry poetry, and returned the first place of the poem "the song of the green mountain" to Ahmed al-Hashemi, where the uniqueness of the place in a carnival full of bursting poetic images dream and the voice of the mountain man fresh and glorious in all sections of the poem.

Ahmed Al-Farsi's poem "As if I am an Outsider" received second place, after a deep conflict broke out in his circles as he began to live in wonderful questions about what diverges in his visions of discrepancies that may be consistent only in the imagination of beauty.

The poem "Concerns at Plato's Table" replaced Alwaihi's woes in third place, after exploring the horizons of philosophy with the astonishment of the beautiful time, the pagan diaries and Socrates from the point of view of a poet who does not stop playing his music in all areas and chapters of his poem.

folk poetry
Walid Al-Alawi managed to surpass 80 popular poets through "Memories of Trap", challenging the idea of ​​the acceleration of time, insisting that the pride of poetry makes him live the whole life in the spirit of youth embracing his dreams that travel far away in the kingdom of God.

Ahmed Al Maghraby managed to win second place, but was unable to receive his prize, which the committee decided to withdraw from him after it was discovered later violating the rules of the competition, which stipulated that the text has not already participated in the same text, which won the competition in the clubs for youth creativity in 2016. The exciting He also won second place that day.

And the solution to the "homeland of alienation". Thirdly, Ahmed al-Ma'amari continued the journey of alienation and modernity and the confusion of human beings in the world, which is filled with astonishment, transformation and ambiguity in a popular language.

The prizes were 9000 riyals (about 23.4 thousand dollars), distributed as follows: 2000 riyals for the first place in each competition and 1500 for the second and 1000 for the third.

The Muscat Festival, which has the theme 'Continue and Joy', was launched on January 10 and will run until 9 February. Since 1998, the festival management has been keen to make it a cultural, artistic, recreational and sporting portal that seeks to blend the spirit of originality with the beauty of the present.

The festival is dedicated to a wide range of heritage events, with performances dedicated to the most prominent traditional arts, activities, crafts and traditions of each state.

Cinema and other events
On Sunday, the short film competition will kick off on Friday, while the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Muscat will start with the participation of 16 teams, as well as many sports competitions such as the 300-wheeled cyclists touring the Sultanate's provinces. 1100 km, the SWAW Karting Race, the Oman Rally Championship, Oman International Drift and the Horse Race.

The festival is not only a forum for entertainment, but also offers a lot of artistic, cultural, academic and special nights such as "Art of Nuhma and Nhamun in Amman", as well as three art exhibitions for photography and plastic arts.

Other events include the Oman International Sculpture Festival, Silk Road Memory, the Omani Oryx Workshop with Modern touches, the Omani Labor Market Symposium between Education Outputs and Market Requirements, the Dinner Under the Dark Experience, the Graphite Art Competition, the Amman Exhibition World Historical Maps.