Dubai Press launches a new phase for the Arab Media Award
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Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum delivers the Media Personality of the Year award to journalist Imad Al-Din Adib.
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Mona Al-Marri: "The accumulated trust balance for the Journalism Award represents a starting point for (the Arab Media Award), while continuing to adhere to professional and ethical standards."
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The "Dubai Press Club" revealed the launch of a new phase for the Arab Press Award, to turn into the "Arab Media Award", and it includes three main sectors: Arab press, visual media and digital media, in a comprehensive development aimed at keeping pace with the development of the Arab media scene and benefiting from the great success it has achieved. The Arab Press Award” for more than 20 years, during which it has continued a pivotal role in stimulating journalistic creativity, with a desire to extend the great positive impact of the award to new media sectors, and in a manner that contributes to raising the competitiveness of Arab media institutions in the diversity of their specializations and motivating them to reach higher levels of quality. Content and content, similar to what the Arab Journalism Award left positive imprints on the record of Arab journalistic work.
In the presence and follow-up of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, the announcement of the launch of the Arab Media Award came within the framework of the celebration organized by the Dubai Press Club in “Al Wasl Square” at the headquarters of “Expo 2020 Dubai”, to celebrate the winners of the prize categories. The 20th and final cycle of the Arab Journalism Award in its current form, where the Arab Media Award will replace it as of the next session.
The Vice-President of the Dubai Media Council and President of the Dubai Press Club, Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, confirmed that this step came after a comprehensive evaluation and review of the "Arab Press Award", where the Board of Directors of the Award and its General Secretariat represented by the Dubai Press Club put the award in its previous image and categories under scrutiny and study. To determine the extent to which it keeps pace with the changes in the media landscape, and to assess the need for fundamental amendments to the award in terms of categories, criteria and targets, to include, in addition to the Arab press, both the visual and digital media sectors.
Al-Marri said: “We continue to work to take the achievements into a broader space, in which we expand the sphere of their positive impact, into a comprehensive media scope, keeping pace with the rapid developments that the media of the region and the world are going through. We have to take a parallel movement that stimulates greater creativity in various disciplines. media, especially in the fields of visual media and digital media platforms.
She stressed that "the award has maintained, over the past 20 years, a consistent pattern of professionalism, credibility, integrity and transparency, which has earned it the trust and respect of the Arab journalist community."
And she added, "This confidence represents the starting point from which the (Arab Media Award) will be launched with its updated image and new categories, while the award will continue on the same approach of professionalism, full ethical commitment and impartiality in choosing on a balanced basis by providing the opportunity for everyone to access the honoring platform, hoping to raise Professional competition ceiling.
The Arab Press Awards were given to 20 winners.
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum handed over the Media Personality of the Year award to the journalist and journalist Imad Al-Din Adib, in appreciation of his efforts in supporting the Egyptian press and enriching the Arab media scene.
His Highness also handed the writer and thinker Dr. Abdelilah Belkeziz the shield of the "Journalistic Column" award, which is one of the symbols of journalistic writing in the Arab world.
His Highness also honored the electronic "Sabq" for winning the "Smart Journalism" category.
Diaa Rashwan, Chairman of the Board of Directors, accompanied by the Director of the Dubai Press Club, Maitha Buhumaid, presented the award shield to journalist Kamil Al-Taweel from Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, with the “Political Journalism” category award.
The "Investigative Journalism" category was awarded to the team of the Emirati newspaper Al Bayan, including Nahid Al Naqbi, Imad Abdel Hamid, Mustafa Khalifa, Noura Al Amir, Ahmed Yahya and Mona Khalifa.
The "Cultural Journalism" award was won by journalist Azmy Abdel Wahab, from the Egyptian Al-Ahram Al-Arabi magazine.
And the award in its 20th session was honored in the "economic journalism" category by journalist Kefaya Oler from The Independent Arab newspaper.
Journalist Hoda Zakaria from the Egyptian newspaper Youm Al-Sabea also won in the humanitarian journalism category.
In the journalistic dialogue category, the journalist Hamad Al-Duraim from the Saudi Al-Jazeera newspaper won.
As for the “Sports Journalism” category, a work published under the title “The Ball of the Rich and the Ball of the Poor in the Time of Corona” won by journalist Atef Abdel Wahed from the Egyptian sports magazine Al-Ahram.
In the "Best Press Photo" category, photographer Mohammed Asaad from the Palestinian Press Agency won.
In the "caricature" category, Nawaf Al-Mulla from the Bahraini newspaper Al-Bilad won.
As for the Arab Journalism Award "Youth Category", Shehab Tarek from the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar Al-Adab, Abdullah Owais from the Masrawy website, and Ziad Al-Fifi from the Independent Arab newspaper won.