Abu Dhabi (WAM)
On Saturday, Darat Al Suwaidi in Abu Dhabi held a ceremony honoring the winners of the Ibn Battuta Award for Travel Literature, within the framework of its twenty-second session and on the sidelines of the activities of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2024.
The honoring ceremony was attended by the Emirati poet and founder of the award, His Excellency Mohammed Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi, the general director of the award, poet Nouri Al-Jarrah, Dr. Ahmed Barqawi, head of the jury, and the members of the jury that was formed this year from academics, Khaldoun Al-Shamaa, Abdul-Rahman Sisib, and Abdul-Nabi Zakir. Al-Taie Al-Hadawi, Shuaib Halifi, Mufid Najm, Farouk Youssef, and the writer Ibrahim Al-Jabin, who is coordinating the committee’s work, in addition to a group of journalists, writers, writers, and specialists.
Winners
The award in the “Investigated Journey” section was won by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Naasan from Syria, for the investigation of the book “Entertaining the Stranger in Every Strange Thing, A Journey to Brazil,” by Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Al-Baghdadi Al-Dimashqi Al-Madani Al-Hasani, and Ahmed Jumaa Abdul Hamid and Yahya Zakaria Al-Souda from Egypt for the investigation. The book “The Returned Ambassador and the Pioneer of Happiness” by Ali bin Yahya bin Ahmed Al-Kilani Al-Qadri Al-Hamawi.
In the contemporary travel section, Abu Al-Harith Musa Ibrahim from Libya won the award for the book “Tours in the World,” and Muhammad Khalil from Morocco won the award for the book “This Is How I Knew China.” The award in the diary category went to Hassouna Al-Mesbahi from Tunisia for the book “Days in Istanbul.”
In the studies branch, Noureddine Belkoudry from Morocco won for “Imagination in the Contemporary Arab Journey,” Mohamed Reda Boudchar from Morocco for “The Late Andalusians in European Journeys to Spain,” and Athba Al-Muslimani from Qatar for “Narrative Discourse in the Journeys of Al-Ghassani and Al-Wardani.” .
The award, in the translated journey section, was won by Ibrahim bin Muhammad Al-Batshan from Saudi Arabia for translating the book “Morocco… People and Countries,” Ihssein Hamad Ehsin Mahmoud from Libya for translating the book “In Search of the Masked Tuareg,” and Imad Al-Ahmad from Syria for translating the book “Stone.” the blood”.
Growing interest
The award confirmed that the competing works this year were distinguished, as usual, by the abundance of manuscripts belonging to the branches of studies, contemporary travel, and translated travel, which indicates the growing interest in travel literature, investigated and studied, according to a growing awareness of the seriousness and importance of this literature, in exploring the Arab’s view of himself in His relationship with his culture, and with the other in his cultural difference.
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