The Sharjah Award for Fine Critical Research announces the names of the winners of its 16th session

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SHARJAH, 3rd November, 2017 (WAM) – The General Secretariat of the Sharjah Award for Critical Fine Research announced the names of the winners of its sixteenth session, which was titled “Inspiring Heritage in Contemporary Fine Art,” and was organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs at the Department of Culture in Sharjah, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Doctor Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah.

This came during a meeting held by the General Secretariat today at the department’s headquarters with the award’s arbitration committee, to review the committee’s report, which included the arbitration mechanism and the names of the winners in this session.

Ezz El-Din Bourka from Morocco won first place for his research, “Manifestations of Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Arab Visual Patterns: A Cultural Approach,” and Ahmed Gamal Eid from Egypt won second place for his research, “Visual Memory: Arab Heritage in Manifestations of Contemporary Fine Art,” while Riad bin Al-Haj Ahmed from Tunisia came in third place for his research, “The Image of the Horse in Contemporary Arab Arts: Towards Deconstructing the Symbol and Creating a Different Discourse.”

Mohammed Al-Qaseer, Director of the Cultural Affairs Department at the Department of Culture, Secretary-General of the Award, said: “The Sharjah Award for Fine Critical Research is proceeding in a new cycle, stressing the importance of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah’s patronage of this field of knowledge that sheds light on the Arab plastic arts from various critical aspects.

He added that with the announcement of the names of the winners of the award in its sixteenth session, the Arab Critical Library has enriched the scene with more than fifty male and female critics through wide and diverse contributions, as this session received research from various Arab countries in a scene that reflects the specificity of this award and its distinction in its artistic and creative presentation at the level of the Arab world.

He pointed out that the committee established a precise mechanism for judging and selected the winning research according to scientific and critical criteria, based on the extent to which the researchers complied with the title of the sixteenth session, and the depth of their approach to the intellectual and cognitive axis of the award, in addition to the clarity of the method, the consistency of the results with the introductions, and the integrity of the language in terms of grammar, morphology, and spelling accuracy.

The committee evaluated 46 nominees for this year’s award, a number that indicates the movement of visual arts criticism in the Arab world, and expresses the general level of nominated research.