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Tetouan (Morocco) – The House of Poetry of Tetouan is organizing a seminar on “Cultural awards in the Arab world” on Wednesday 3 June at the headquarters of Dar Al-Shaar in Tetouan, with a virtual presence. While the seminar is being broadcast on social media platforms and channels.
The critic and translator Abd al-Latif al-Bazi, the critic and playwright Yusef al-Rihani will participate in this symposium, while the writer and journalist Yassin Adnan will be a guest of the symposium. Yassin Adnan is a member of the Foundation Board of the International Fiction Award and a member of the Cultural Resource Board. He has also been a member of the jury in numerous Moroccan and Arab awards and currently presents the cultural programs “Beit Yassin” on the Al Ghad channel.
Youssef Al-Rihani won the Sharjah Prize for Arab Creativity, in the theater category, in 2006, the Muhammad Taymour Prize for Theater in Cairo in 2007, the Dubai Cultural Award for Theater in 2014 and the Sharjah Prize for Arab Critical Formative Research in 2016 and 2019.
As for Abdel-Latif El-Bazi, he has been a member of the jury of numerous film and literary events inside and outside Morocco, and is the general author of the Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival.
The symposium “The Future of Awards in the Arab World” discusses a cultural phenomenon that has always served as a catalyst for writers and readers. Indeed, awards aren’t just a luxury and celebration that comes after the book is written, for example. This is because the conditions and criteria for the nomination for the prize, the desire of the candidates to persuade the jury and the care of the intellectuals and creators of their nominated works are issues that have long been a source of quality work and the pursuit of accuracy and beauty as a means of research, creativity and author. The cultural and literary awards are a guide for readers and suggest them referenced works chosen among many others.
Some may argue that the rewards are as much as they alert us to important actions that obscure many other visions that we had no luck in the coronation. This fact, however, only gives more value to the prizes, and confirms the need for many prizes, in order to guarantee more opportunities and greater luck for more reliable and quality works.
Therefore, the awards take a place within the cultural industries system, as well as occupy more than one position in the book industry in particular. In this cultural context, the award appears at the forefront of those intervening in the book industry, sometimes before the authorship itself, and before talking about printing, publishing and distribution, leading to reading. Awards vary almost to include each of these stages, including awards for written work, including awards for published work, others for publishers and producers … and even awards for readers.
In our Arab world, the available data and documentary balances attest that prizes are the valid reason, and it is almost the only one that guarantees the book to reach the second edition and beyond, as well as guaranteeing theatrical and plastic works, for example, performances large-scale commercial and artistic activities.
The history of cultural awards in the Arab world also testifies to the value and importance of these awards, from discovery awards to recognition awards. The first includes awards for young writers and innovators, who explore them and introduce them to Arab culture. The second comes in the form of a confession that testifies to intellectuals and artists and praises their experiences and achievements. And among these and those, there are many awards in various cultural and artistic fields, the first of which are the Jerusalem Prize, the Naguib Mahfouz Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Tayeb Salih Prize, the Sheikh Zayed Prize, the Sultan Al Owais, the King Faisal Prize, the Abu Qasim Shabi Prize in Tunisia, and the Abu Qasim Shabi Prize in Tunisia, the International Pillar of Poetry, the High Atlas and the Booker Prize for Arabic fiction, which became the first line in the institutions that enrich and enrich the Arab novel market.
Sharjah remains the emirate of awards in the Arab world, as the book capital of the world offers us seven prestigious awards in theater, composition, poetry, history and fiction. While this time he chose to announce a new prize for criticism of Arabic poetry.
Therefore, cultural awards are of great value, not only to the winner of the award, but to the reader, as the cultural and arts scene thrives, as well as the cultural and arts industries that thrive on them.
Ultimately, the award remains a sophisticated cultural and civilization phenomenon that celebrates human research, studies and innovations, which have become more worthy of appreciation and consideration than ever, at a time when the need to honor the person has increased. creative and appreciate her efforts and achievements.
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