"Abu Dhabi Arabic Language" Announcing the shortlist for the 2026 Research Grants Programme
ABU DHABI, 10 JUNE / WAM / The Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, affiliated with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, announced the short list for the 2026 Research Grants Programme, which includes 20 research projects, which were selected from among 43 projects included in the long list of the program, following a rigorous scientific arbitration process that was subject to competitive criteria.
The current session witnessed a wide turnout from researchers from Arab and non-Arab countries, as the number of researchers applying reached 623 researchers from 34 countries, which reflects the growing interest in scientific research in the fields of the Arabic language, and the consolidation of the program’s position as one of the initiatives supporting specialized scientific research regionally and internationally.
Based on the decision of the President of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, No. (3) of 2026, a specialized scientific committee was formed that includes an elite group of academics and experts in the fields of the Arabic language and humanities studies, to undertake the task of selecting the long and short lists for the program.
The committee reviewed the submitted projects and judged them according to a scientific methodology based on criteria, most notably: the originality of the topic, the quality of the research method, the value of the knowledge contribution, and the extent of the project’s connection to research priorities in the Arabic language.
The projects included in the short list were distributed among various specializations, including: literature and criticism, applied and computational linguistics, Arabic lexicography, editing manuscripts, in addition to school curricula, and teaching Arabic to speakers of other languages, which reflects the breadth of research areas covered by the program.
The short list in the Literature and Criticism category included: “The Poetry of the People of the Book in Early Islam and the Umayyad Era,” Heba Abdul Wahab Aqeel from Syria, “Literature and Lying: A Semiotic Study,” Salma Al-Ati from Tunisia, “Inspiration from World Cultures and Their Representations in the Poetry of Arab Immigrants (1900-1950): Poetry of Syrian, Lebanese, and Egyptian Immigrants to the United States of America as a Model,” Ratib Tamer Sukkar from Syria, and “Crafts and Letters: The Impact of “Shadow Professors in the Making of Traditional Discourse,” Saeed Al-Awadi from Morocco.
The list also included: “The Personality of Christ and the Formation of the Symbolic Vision in Modern Arabic Poetry,” Youssef Hamdan from Jordan, “The Discourse of Masculinity in the Arab Critical Heritage: A Psycho-Cultural Approach to the Tale of Umm Jundub,” Abdel Rahman Ikider from Morocco, “French Orientalism and Arab Literature: History, Paths, and Outcomes,” Muhammad Al-Sahbi Al-Allani from Tunisia, and “The Poem as Pretext: Plagiarism (How fair is the people of Dabbah) and the creation of the novel The Killing of Al-Mutanabbi,” Muhammad Ahmed Abd al-Tawab Abd al-Azim from Egypt, and “New Narrative Formations in the Young Adult Novel from the Perspective of Post-Modern Criticism,” Ibrahim Ahmed Metwally Ardash from the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The list includes “Arabic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Identity, Authority, and the Future of Language,” Farouk Ghanem Khaddaj from Lebanon, “The Rhetoric of Silence in the Arab Narrative,” Asma Abdel-Jawad Yassin from the Arab Republic of Egypt, and “Echoes of India: Manifestations of the Indian Heritage in Arab Literature and Culture,” by Qais Suleiman Faleh Al-Qudah from Jordan.
In the Arabic dictionary category, the short list included: “Palm words in the dialects of the Emirates: a linguistic study,” Ahmed Muhammad Obaid from the United Arab Emirates, and “Keys to Heritage: A Dictionary of Society and Popular Culture Before Islam,” Muhammad Obaidullah from Jordan, and “The Etymological Dictionary of Names of Historical Sites in the United Arab Emirates: A Historical and Linguistic Study in Etymology,” Ahmed Ibish from Syria.
As for the Manuscript Editing category, the shortlist included: “The Title of Wisdom and Statement”, Muhammad Fathi Al-Aasar from the Arab Republic of Egypt, “Reliefs and Artifacts in Crafts and Crafts: An Investigation and Study of the Culture of Craft Sects and Social Discourse in Ottoman Egypt and the Levant”, Muhammad Ahmed Salem Ahmed from Mauritania, and “The Book of Markets of Longing from the Lovers’ Wrestler by Burhan al-Din al-Biqa’i”, Khaled Abdel Raouf. Othman Al-Jabr from Jordan
In the category of Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers, the shortlist included: “Inherited Language and Acquired Tongue: Towards Building the Linguistic Competence of Arabic Inheritors,” by Nizar Qabilat and Louay Badran from Jordan.
As for the curriculum category, the shortlist included: “The image of camels in educational curricula in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a comparative study in semiotic transformations and a historical trace of the process of presentation, treatment, and treatment strategies in Arabic language books,” by Fawaz Saleh Al-Sulami from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The shortlisted projects are scheduled to move to the final stage of evaluation and arbitration, in preparation for selecting the winning projects for the research grants, to be announced at a later time.
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