His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, honored this morning the Arab poets who won the 2022 Qawafi Prize, in the house of Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi.
This came during His Highness’s reception of the guests of the Sharjah Festival of Arabic Poetry, including writers, poets and media professionals, which kicked off on Monday evening.
At the beginning of the meeting, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah welcomed the attendees, pointing to the privacy of the place where he meets them, saying, “We welcome you to the house, and the house means home, and this house has many valuables in science, knowledge, and holdings, most of which are documents, manuscripts, research, etc. As long as poetry is in this field, this is the most beautiful place for it, because this circuit is close to the heart, and you are on the heart’s cradle.
And His Highness added (there are many who want to search and view the existing holdings, so we preferred to put them in this place, “the circuit”, which is the closest to me personally).
His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, congratulated the 12 poets and poets who won the award from various Arab countries, pointing out that he had chosen the winners from among the poems published in the “Qawafi” magazine issued by the Department of Culture in Sharjah, carefully, and His Highness said (I am with you and I repeat these poems Over the course of a year, not as a courtesy, but that was food for the soul, this food that you, with your capabilities, were able to put on paper.
His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, honored the winning poets, after which each of them recited his chosen poem, addressing in their poems many topics such as homeland, brotherhood, sadness, and others; At the end of the meeting, His Highness kindly shook hands with the attendees, and accompanied them on a tour of the various sections and holdings of Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi’s house. The attendees expressed their thanks and appreciation to His Highness for honoring and honoring them and His Highness’s support for various forms of culture.
The poet Muhammad Al-Azzam from the Kingdom of Jordan recited his poem entitled “I knocked on your door”, including:
As long as I have eyes here from a dream, and you alone taste the dream when it came near
You will definitely open the door smiling like a crying mother who comes to take us.
The journalist, Raad Aman, read the poem of the poet Muhammad Mustafa Khamis from Syria, entitled “The Third Face of the Memory of the Sun” on his behalf, and it includes:
Our sky is to let love seal us with its transparent red candle every evening
Our sky is to return the earth to its wings, to restore it, to erase sorrow with grief.
Poet Hassan Qadusa from Palestine recited his poem entitled “A Song in Front of the Wall”, including:
Poetry flies like a dove out of my pain, and the metaphorical echo of my words dances
I killed the ugliness in the valley of Al-Razaya and returned from the ascents in unison.
The poet Hazem Mabrouk from the Arab Republic of Egypt recited his poem “For the Last Rak’a”, in which he says:
Your brother is your youth full of determination and without him in the universe you are old
Likewise, the Sunnah of the chosen one guides that everyone in the loins is family.
As for the poet Nahida Shabib from Syria, she recited her poem “Industriousness”, in which she says:
If nostalgia goes mad, I shed tears and useless letters
In prison, I licked a thirsty wound from the shores of patience to be quenched.
And the poet Saud bin Suleiman Al-Youssef from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia read his poem “What I told you”, including:
Whoever extinguishes oblivion in me and ignites you forever, deceives me the answer to ask you
Or whenever I remember you, I formulate her presence like a dream. Absence seizes me and your first.
Poet Essam Abdul Basit Al-Bakhit from Sudan presented his poem “Despair and Hope”, including:
Fifty of what I learned, except for the lost hand turning them over the stack of papers
O you who hope for a dawn that you hope for, are you not tired of staring at the horizon?
The poet Khaled Boudreef from the Kingdom of Morocco recited his poem “Search for the Shadow”, in which:
I search for the shadow for my shadow, but I do not find it, and I associate the sun with light, but it does not give birth to it.
And ask the heart about light, and my heart asks me, have you been deceived by the spectrum of light or its body?
The poet Hawra Al-Hamili from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recited her poem “A Heda on the Lip of the Rababa”, including:
I am the daughter of the godfather, in my blood caravans of Bedouin shepherds pass
Fragile on the mirage, my dream flees, and how much a sheep fled to Al-Baida.
Poet Hassan Al-Zahrani from Saudi Arabia presented his poem entitled “Abjada”, in which:
Find your tears in the book of wailing and die wrapped in the light of poetry in my burning
O Babylonian of meanings, shake my throat and take the morning tune of love from my heartbeat.
The poet Khadija Al-Saidi from Morocco read her poem “Emanation”, in which:
The virgin astonishment revealed to me a rhyme for which he relaxed his hearing for interpretation, and he was refreshed
In the heat of the night, I sent Al-Muna to funeral, I left the heart’s nest, and the dream became shrinking.
The poet Dr. Abdel-Razzaq Al-Darbas from Syria concluded the poetry readings with his poem “Dressed with a Dream”, including:
Rain upon rain, and we shed a tear, so the blind eye returns before seeing
With love, we rise, then we plant a rose, so that it becomes fragrant in the stink of circumstances.
It is noteworthy that the idea of the Qawafi Award came as a generous initiative from His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, under the auspices of the Department of Culture, through the selection of poems published monthly by the “Qawafi” magazine concerned with poetry, which provided a wide space for poets from all Arab countries to publish their production of unique poems and poetic models that represented A creative unit that nationalized the eloquence, originality, role and loftiness of Arabic poetry, starting from Sharjah.
His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, directed that the winning poems be published in a publication that His Highness chose, entitled “Annals of Rhymes”, which included the poems that were published from January to December 2022.
The meeting was attended by the head of the Department of Culture, Abdullah bin Muhammad Al Owais, the head of the Department of Protocol and Hospitality, Muhammad Obaid Al Zaabi, the head of the Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi Ali Ibrahim Al Marri House, and a number of officials and those in charge of the Sharjah Festival of Arabic Poetry, poets and writers.
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