Abu Dhabi «Etihad»
The jury of the tenth season of the Million Poet program, organized by the Abu Dhabi Festivals and Cultural and Heritage Programs Committee, concluded its fifth tour in the capital “Abu Dhabi”, where the tour witnessed the participation of poets from 15 Arab and non-Arab nationalities, who presented various poetic experiences and strong texts. Arbitration has conducted virtual interviews via direct video communication technology from Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi with poets from: the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Sultanate of Oman, while she met the poets realistically in the tour of the United Arab Emirates, in a move that reflects the determination to recover The gradual return to normal life, and the five rounds recorded distinct successes and a remarkable turnout, while the jury is preparing to finalize the selection of the 100 list. To that, Sultan Al-Amimi, Director of the Poetry Academy and a member of the Jury of the Million Poet, said: The Abu Dhabi tour was successful by all standards. The level of poets in it was distinguished, indicating that the number of nationalities of poets who participated in the Abu Dhabi interviews was the largest compared to the tours conducted outside the Emirates. This season, where the tour witnessed poets representing 15 Arab and non-Arab nationalities, all of whom mastered writing Nabati poetry, adding that the high level witnessed by the Abu Dhabi tour made the number of licenses obtained by poets large.
Al-Amimi indicated that preparations are currently underway to choose and approve the list of 100, which will be announced soon, noting that the tenth season has gone through five rounds that witnessed an increase in turnout and excellence in content, pointing out that the competition used to develop from season to season, since its launch, It is expected that the competition between poets will be striking this season, and it will present important poetic experiences and great dazzle.
For his part, poet Hamad Al-Saeed, a member of the jury, confirmed that the program will witness diversity this season, as poets representing many countries of the world will participate in it, which heralds a strong season and at the same time expresses the success of the program in attracting Arab and non-Arab poets, and pointed out that Nabati poetry It is no longer restricted to the people of the Arabian Peninsula, and this is what we see from the large number of participations witnessed by the program from all Arab countries, adding that Abu Dhabi station was one of the most beautiful and powerful stations, likely due to the fact that the interviews in it came directly between the committee and the poets, pointing out that Virtual interviews, which are carried out by means of modern technologies, do not have that mutual feeling between the poet and the committee.
As for Dr. Ghassan Al-Hassan, a member of the program’s jury, he said: We used to have a rich and diverse Abu Dhabi tour, as it included poets from multiple countries, especially countries that did not witness the presence of tours, and Al-Hassan added that the interviews of the tenth season witnessed the participation of poets and poets. From the Emirates, distinguished participations by residents belonging to different Arab nationalities, and that a large number of them presented strong and generous texts, and among them were poets participating for the first time, in addition to the excellence in attendance by the poets who attended strongly and in a competitive and distinguished manner.
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