Media students in the Arab world welcome a prize "creativity" They confirm their impact on their motivation

Dubai, May 18 / WAM / Dubai was keen for decades to have a tangible and influential role in the advancement of the Arab media work, and the establishment of the Dubai Press Club in 1999 was under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God bless him, as the first step in a march that lasted for more than 25 years during which Dubai continued to pay efforts to achieve its vision for the future of the Arab media As a notification of his audio and influential voice with the capabilities of his distinction and enhance his competitive capabilities.
Many efforts, initiatives and projects were launched from Dubai that included among themselves to enhance its position as a positive push for the media work and its qualification for its selection by the Council of Arab Media Ministers as the capital of the Arab media for two years in a row, while the Dubai Press Club had a large share of those initiatives and projects, in its lead in the “Arab Media Forum”, and the “Arab Press Award”, which also witnessed a great development, even a great development, Today we have the “Arab Media Summit”, the inclusive umbrella of the forum and the award, which has become the “Arab Media Award”, and alongside them the “Arab Media Forum for Youth” and the summit and the Arab Social Communication Pioneers Award “in addition to the Media Award for Arab Youth” Creativity “, so that the summit in its various components will be the most prominent event and the largest gathering of those in charge of media work and those concerned with it from all over the region and the world.
The revival of the Creativity Award came to return to a new suit, after a 16 -year hiatus, to confirm the importance of finding incentives that push young people to excellence in the media field starting from the academic stage, where the award is concerned with students and students of Arab media throughout the region and the world, and it is granted to the outstanding people with creative energies and the ability to be creative in various fields of media work.
The ninth session of the Arab Youth Media Award “Emaa” comes in its new form as an extension of the “Creativity” award for media students, which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in 2001, as a platform aimed at discovering distinguished competencies between Arab media schools, and giving Arab Arab media institutions the opportunity to benefit from those competencies to be a bridge that connects the academic and vocational aspects in the media field and contributes to discovering the best elements The creator is one of the young people who specialized in studying the media in its various branches.
It is scheduled to honor the winners of the “Creativity” awards during the first day of the activities of the “Arab Media Summit 2025”, which Dubai Press Club organizes during the period from 26 to 28 May 2025, with the summit attracting a group of the most important political symbols, intellectual stature and media leaders in the region and the world.
The announcement of the organization of the Creativity Award again was widely welcomed in the academic circles, whether local or Arab, and positive reactions by the Daris of Media Sciences, in the UAE and the various Arab countries, who expressed their appreciation for Dubai’s contributions in supporting the media sector starting from the academic stage, and the idea of ​​the award and what it seeks to stimulate creativity in various media fields, with the creation of categories that keep pace with the great development in the fields of media in the light of progress Technology and its welcoming spaces for creativity in the media.
Hassan Al -Dhanhani, a student at the United Arab Emirates University, specializing in public communication, considered the “Creativity” prize a podium that gives media students a real opportunity to highlight their talents and develop their media skills in an inspiring competitive environment, and he said: “Look at my participation in this award as an important addition, as the award enables us to convert what we theoretically learned to practical applications that contribute to refining our experiences and enhances our confidence as practitioners in this The field.
Salama Al Shamsi, a student of mass communication, at the United Arab Emirates University, expressed her pride in participating in the Creativity Award, and expressed her wish to be one of the honored students, and said: “The Media Award for Arab Youth is a distinctive opportunity to highlight the energies of youth and their creativity in the various fields of media, as it is a platform that enhances the role of the media by discovering promising talents. Our ambitions, and an opportunity to contribute to building a more aware and influential youth media.
For her part, Emma Pierre Makhoul, a student at the Faculty of Information, said that she was known for the award through her professors in the college, who spoke to students enthusiastically about the award and its importance and motivated them to participate, and its impact on encouraging creativity and excellence as it is on a wide Arab scale, with the importance of taking advantage of this opportunity to develop media skills for youth.
She agrees with Emma, ​​her colleague Janet Charbel Salama, a third -year student at the Faculty of Information at the Lebanese University, in her opinion about the award and its impact, and said that “creativity” is a leading initiative in motivating media students to distinguish and produce creative production, as she is not only satisfied with honoring the winners, but opens wide horizons for all participants to express their professional ambitions, as well as the fact that the award is a platform A process that helps the student to get out of the theoretical framework to the field of experience and challenge, enhance his confidence in his capabilities and contribute to building a spirit of positive competition between the participants, as well as it pushes the student to provide the best not only to win, but to prove his presence in the media field.
From the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Omar Magdy Abdel Wahid Al -Jaafara, Bachelor of Media, considered radio and television, at Yarmouk University, that the Media Award for Arab Youth “Creativity” is a significant invitation for media students to think outside the fund, and the tendency to creativity and move away from traditional media templates, and follow the great development in the media field in light of the great technological revolution that contributed to the development of New concepts and standards for media excellence.
As for Ghala Al -Qahtani, a bachelor’s student at the College of Communication and Information, Department of Journalism and Digital Media, at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, she praised the allocation of the award groups that keep pace with the development in the media field such as podcasts, electronic games, and multiple media, and said that the award motivates students to creativity and innovation in presenting ideas and implementing projects and also allows them to highlight their capabilities in areas The media, where its categories were taken into account diversity and inclusiveness.
Salma Ahmed Al -Muwafi, a student at the Faculty of Information and Republican Communication at the British University in the Arab Republic of Egypt, expressed her happiness that she is one of the requests that had the opportunity to meet the Dubai Press Club delegation when he visited the university within the framework of the tour that the delegation made in a number of Arab countries to introduce the award through meetings that were organized in a group of universities that enter media specializations within its academic programs.
From the Tunisian Republic, Samah bint Ahmed Grsli, a student at the Institute of Journalism and News, said that she learned of the creativity award through social media platforms, and a colleague had published her on her page, so she encouraged to participate in it and send her work, especially since such opportunities represented in encouraging students to creativity and production are few in the Arab world.
Nahila Boussa, a student at the Higher Institute of Media and Communication, in Rabat, the Kingdom of Morocco, stressed the importance of digital platforms in the media world today, and said that she learned of an award for creativity through one of the most prominent of these platforms, noting that “creativity” came in keeping with the rapid development in the media world, by including groups that take into account specializations that young people today accept her studies.
It is noteworthy that the Arab Youth Media Award comes this year, including 6 categories: podcasts, electronic games, and multimedia, in addition to the categories of photography, short video, and press reports.

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