Strong competitions in episode 4 of "Cumshot"

Abu Dhabi, November 19, 2017 – Al Raha Beach Theater in Abu Dhabi witnessed strong competition yesterday evening in the fourth live episode of the “Million’s Poet” program in its twelfth season, which is produced by the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority under the slogan “Our Poem is One,” as part of its strategy aimed at preserving literary and poetic heritage.

The episode, which was broadcast live on the “Abu Dhabi” and “Baynouna” channels, was attended by His Excellency Fares Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority, His Excellency Abdullah Mubarak Al Muhairi, Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority, and a number of officials, in addition to member of the program’s advisory committee, Turki Al Muraikhi, and an audience of poets, media figures, and Nabati poetry lovers.

The jury, consisting of Dr. Sultan Al-Amimi, Dr. Ghassan Al-Hassan, and Hamad Al-Saeed, announced that poets Saleh Al-Barazi from Kuwait, with a score of 49 out of 50, and Hussam Bin Fayah from Saudi Arabia, with a score of 48 out of 50, qualified for the next stage.

In the rest of the results, Omar Rashid Al-Azmi from Kuwait and Eid Fahid Al-Shammari from Saudi Arabia obtained 47 degrees, while Eid Sulaiman Al-Ammarin from Jordan obtained 45 degrees, and Awad Al-Oud from Yemen obtained 44 degrees.

It is expected that one of them will qualify for the next stage by public vote during this week through the website and application of the “Poet of a Million” program.

It was announced at the beginning of the episode, which was presented by media figures Faisal Al-Jassim and Salama Al-Muhairi, that two poets qualified for the next stage by audience vote in the previous episode. They are Mubarak Hamid from the United Kingdom, who received a score of 80 out of 100, and Faris Al-Amiri Al-Subaie from Kuwait, who received a score of 54 out of 100. The result represents the sum of the jury’s scores and the public’s vote scores.

The episode witnessed strong competition among the participating poets, and the members of the jury spoke about their impressions of this episode of the “Million Poet” program, where Dr. Ghassan Al-Hassan pointed out the remarkable superiority of the poets, and Hamad Al-Saeed saw that the episode witnessed diversity in the fields of poetry and its topics, and superiority in attendance and recitation, which greatly reduced the differences between the contestants.

While Dr. Sultan Al-Amimi praised the topics covered by the contestants’ poems in this season’s episodes in general, he saw that the experiences of these poets brought a uniqueness to their topics of great beauty, and he noted that all of this moved Nabati poetry to new horizons that had not existed before.

As part of the “Million Poet” program’s interest in highlighting the stars of poetry in the Arab world, the poet Faisal Al-Adwani interviewed during the evening the poet Saif bin Salem Al-Mansouri, the bearer of the Million Poet banner in the sixth season, who praised the distinguished level of poets that the program embraces in the competitions of its episodes, pointing to the clear development that has accompanied the program’s seasons in recent years.

During his hosting, Al Mansouri presented two poems that received great interaction from the audience that filled the theater stands.

It is noteworthy that the “48” stage of “Million Poet” includes eight evenings, in each of which six contestants compete, of whom one or two poets qualify for the next stage by the decision of the jury, and the public votes for their favorite poet from the rest of the contestants, and in the end 24 poets qualify for the next stage. It includes four evenings in which six poets compete in each of them, of whom three qualify for the next stage, including one or two poets by the decision of the jury, and the rest by the public’s vote, moving on to 12. A poet goes to the next stage, in which the poets compete over two evenings using the same previous mechanism, so that six poets qualify for the fourth stage in which the poets compete without excluding any contestant, and in which the poets’ scores are calculated from 60 marks from the committee (30 of which in the first evening and the same in the final evening), and 40 marks from the audience, while in the closing evening the six poets compete to win the title, and the scores are calculated to determine the positions from sixth to first.

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