The Ruler of Sharjah honors the winners of the Rhymes Award 2025
Sharjah, January 6, 2025 – His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, this morning honored the poets who won the Al-Qawafi Prize 2025, at the house of Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi.
This came during His Highness’s reception of participants and guests of the Sharjah Arab Poetry Festival in its 22nd session, from various parts of the Arab world, including writers, poets and media professionals, which began yesterday evening.
His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, honored the winning poets, each of whom recited his winning poem. The topics covered by the poets varied between lamentation and pride in the homeland and contemplation of the soul and nature. Some of them also sang of Sharjah and the bright point of light it represents in the sky of Arab culture and literature. At the end of the meeting, His Highness shook hands with the poets and attendees, and received a number of special gifts from the poets, such as poetry collections and various books.
The honored poets in attendance expressed their sincere gratitude and appreciation to His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah for his patronage of the poets and poets, and all writers and creators in various forms of creativity and arts, and for honoring and honoring them by choosing their poems and printing them to be in the record of the Distinguished Rhymes Award.
The poet Hussein Al-Abdullah, from Syria, presented his winning poem entitled “If It Rained Gold,” the poet Ahmed Shalabi from the Arab Republic of Egypt, his poem “Standing in the Middle of a Dream,” the poet Rashid Issa, from Jordan, his poem, “A Whisper from the Island of Light,” and Nawfal Al-Saidi, from Morocco, his poem, “The Child of the City.”
The poet Omar Al-Raji from Morocco also recited his poem “The Stranger of Andalusia”, the poet Zakaria Mustafa from Sudan his poem “A Rose for the Guardian of Meaning”, the poet Hamza Al-Youssef from Syria his poem “Echo”, the poet Abdullah Abdel Sabour from Egypt his poem “To My Father’s Soul”, and the poet Muhammad Saeed Al-Atiq from Syria his poem “Vadaeel”.
Poet Asma Al-Hammadi from the Emirates also recited her poem “The Morning is Her Doctrine,” Khaled Al-Hassan from Iraq presented his poem “Prayer in the Al-Nour Mosque,” and poet Shams Al-Din Boukalwa from Algeria concluded with his winning poem “The Way of the Sun.”
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