The Board of Directors of the “Arab Media Award” adopts the winning works for the 24th session

The Board of Directors of the “Arab Media Award”, organized by the Dubai Press Club, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God preserve him, approved the winning works in its printed, visual and digital categories, in addition to the two winning characters in the “Best Pillar” and “Personality of the Year” in the 24th session of the award.

This came during a meeting of the award’s board of directors, which was held chaired by the Vice President and Managing Director of the Dubai Media Council, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the award, Mona Ghanem Al -Murri, through the visual communication technology, where the members of the Council discussed the various stages that the arbitration and sorting operations went through, and the standards adopted by the committees in choosing the winners according to the conditions specified for the award within its various categories, which witnessed strong competition between major media institutions and journalists Writers in the Arab world.

During the meeting, Mona Ghanem Al -Murri thanked the members of the award’s board of directors, and to everyone who contributed to completing all the stages of the award to the choice of the winners for its current session, especially the sorting and arbitration committees that have continued to work over the past months to ensure the best works reach the final stages according to the approved criteria, and the award remains always an inspirational model in applying the highest principles of integrity and transparency in the differentiation And choice.

She said: «What distinguishes the award is not only that it crowns excellence and stimulates competition and raises the ceiling of creativity, but rather expresses Dubai’s identity in supporting the role of the media as an effective tool in building human, and based on this vision we are keen to enrich the contributions of the award in developing media content and the Arab media system in general as the most prominent Arab award that celebrates excellence in the media field.

She pointed out that the award witnessed this year a distinguished course at the level of the size and diversity of posts, as the General Secretariat of the award received works from various media institutions in the region, as well as from journalists working in Arab newspapers throughout the Arab world, and emphasized that all the work that has reached the stage of accreditation, went through long stages of screening operations, then arbitration by specialized and neutral committees.

In turn, the Secretary -General of the Arab Media Award, Dr. Maitha Bouhamid, expressed her appreciation to everyone who participated in the success of this version of the Arab Media Award, in confirmation of continuing her role in granting appropriate honor to creators who contribute to enriching the media scene. She said: «We highly appreciate the pivotal role of the award’s board of directors, and its keenness that the award is to keep pace with the rapid developments in the media sector regionally and globally.”

The Secretary -General added during the meeting, that “the development of the award system does not stop, and it is subject to periodic discussions every year with the members of the Board of Directors with the aim of discussing the development of the award and its categories in the context of our continuous keenness to keep pace with all rapid media variables, and to achieve qualitative moves that take the award to higher levels of excellence translation of the UAE and Dubai approach in development and innovation in various fields.”

On the honoring ceremony, the director of the Arab Media Award, Jassim Al -Shamsi, said: “The General Secretariat of the Arab Media Award is scheduled to honor the winners during the award ceremony that will be held this year in conjunction with the activities of the Arab Media Summit on May 27, in the presence of a group of Emirati and Arab media leaders, senior writers, media professionals, heads of major Arab media institutions, directors of newspapers, news sites, and digital platforms at home Arab ».

The “Arab Journalism Award” is the head of the Arab Media Award, within which categories include: “Political Press”, “Economic Press”, and “Press Investigations”.

While the “Visual Media Award” includes five categories: “The Best Economic Program”, “The Best Cultural Program”, “The Best Sports Program” and “The Best Social Program”, in addition to “The Best Documentary Work”.

As for the “Personality of the Year’s Media” award, it is granted by a decision of the Board of Directors of the award for a distinguished Arab media personality, in appreciation of its contributions that enriched the Arab media scene within various fields, whether written, digital or visual, and its efforts that extend through years to enhance the Arab media scene with creative thought and creative visions that left positive imprints in society in general, in addition to the category of “Best Pillar”, and it is also granted by a decision of the Board of Directors Based on specific criteria.

It is noteworthy that the Board of Directors of the “Arab Media Award” includes the Executive Director of the Marketing and Communication Sector at the Dubai Media Corporation, Secretary General “WAM”, Muhammad Al -Hammadi, the writer and thinker, Dr. Muhammad Al -Rumaihi, and Chairman of the National Media Authority, head of the Cairo Center for Strategic Studies, Ahmed Al -Muslimani.

The council also includes in its membership both the CEO of eight company, Abdul Rahman Abu Al -Maleh, the founder of the Black Fund program, the media Ammar Taqi, the writer Sawsan Al -Shaer, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Omani Journalists Association, Dr. Muhammad bin Mubarak Al -Araimi, the Executive Editor -in -Chief of the Gulf newspaper, Raed Barqawi, the editor -in -chief Knone.