United Arab Emirates The Arab Press Prize adopts award-winning works at its 18th session UAE

Emirates News Today, the Board of Directors of the Arab Journalism Award, chaired by Diaa Rashwan, and in the presence of the Secretary General of the Prize, Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, won the eighteenth edition of the Award, in addition to the winner of the two categories of journalist chronicler and public media personality. Meeting at the Dubai Press Club headquarters.

The Council, which has many Arab media personalities, was informed of the work of the candidates to win, based on the merits of the awards committees in their 13 categories, as well as on the details of the evaluation process put in place. during the past period and on the subsequent recommendations of the Chairs of the Committees. In this context, the Deputy Director of the Prize, Jassem Al-Shamsi, presented the most important statistics for the participants during the current session and the new filtering mechanism adopted by the General Secretariat of the Prize to improve the evaluation process to make it flexible and adapt to rapid changes in the press and media sector.

On this occasion, Diaa Rashwan, chairman of the board of directors of the award, thanked His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, sponsor of the Arab Journalism Award for the great care he gives to the media in general and the press in particular. The Arab press and the Arab Media Forum, which are considered today as one of the most important and important events in the field of information, stimulate and develop this information through discussions, recognition and hospitality in distinguished areas in an important sector, the press sector.

The President thanked journalists and press organizations for giving the award the confidence and strength to continue, wishing all participants success and success, highlighting the keen interest of the Board of Directors in the award represented by the Elite of its members to honor distinguished thinkers and a high-caliber press production and deliver them to Her Majesty's tribune of honor. Continue to establish the status of the award in Arabic and maintain the success achieved in successive sessions.

Mona Ghanem Al Marri, General Secretary of the Arab Journalism Award, said that the General Secretariat of the Award was keen to maintain the high professional standards of the Award by selecting and honoring distinguished and distinguished Arab journalists from all over the region and the world, and doubling the work according to His Highness Sheikh. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, sponsor of the award and founder of the award, must always be a catalyst of diligence in creativity and motivation for fair competition in the press work gallery, and ultimately beneficial to the reader and the recipient Product Journalist Arabic with a high degree of excellence Walt Response. She expressed her deep gratitude to the Board of Directors, whose contributions have had a major impact on the professional orientation of the award, while respecting the creativity of the press over the years, while being proud of the role that she played to encourage pen and feather owners to present their best ideas. And visions in the context of a high-level journalist, with a direct reflection on the level of production of Arab journalism, both in terms of form or content.

She added that the selection and selection committees made commendable efforts over many weeks, during which they visited the different award categories, to select the best candidate, emphasizing that it was based on clear principles of integrity and objectivity in the selection process, Creativity in the price competition category is proud to be one of the most important awards in the world. She referred to developments in recent years under the umbrella of the Mohammed Bin Rashid International Initiatives, including those that have contributed to the promotion of award categories, evaluation criteria and the new corporate filtering system. participating.

The General Secretariat of the Arab Journalism Award will announce the winners at the awards ceremony, which will be attended by the media and media leaders of the Arab world, and coincide with the conclusion of the Arab Media Forum, to be held on 27-28 March. March 2019.

The prize's board of directors includes a number of intellectual and media leaders, media leaders and the Arab Academy, led by the former president of the Union of Egyptian Journalists, Diaa Rashwan, and by members of Mohammed Yousuf, vice president and president of the United Arab Emirates Journalists Association. And Raisq Rizk, chairman of the board of Akhbar Al Youm in Egypt, and Sawsan Al Shaer, media and writer at Al Sharq Al Awsat, on the board of Mohammed Al Hammadi. "The United Arab Emirates, and Mona Boss Dr. Abdel-Nasser Al-Najjar, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ayyam Newspaper, Kuwaiti Journalist and Writer Muhammad Al-Nughaimsh, Writer and Editor-in-Chief of Kuwaiti Journalist Dr. Badriya Al-Bishr and journalist, Emirates Today Editor-in-Chief, Saudi writer Khaled Al-Muina, and Ghassan Tahboub, media advisor in the Prime Minister's Office.

Significant ratios and indicators
Clearly indicating the importance of winning the prize in the Arab world, the number of works received during the eighteenth session of the prize has been increased to 4486 and the participation of more than 2500 journalists and journalists from around the world.

Jassim Al Shamsi, Deputy Director of the Prize, said: "The number of countries participating in this session has grown to 38 countries, including 20 Arab countries and 18 foreign countries.Egypt occupies the first place in the Arab world in terms of number of holdings with 1,004 jobs and 22%), followed by United Arab Emirates (UAE), which increased by 479%, followed by Palestine (438), Saudi Arabia (394) and Morocco (9% With 279 jobs and 67%, followed by Syria with 161% and 4%, while the number of participating companies in total other countries working 1732.

Al-Shamsi added that the category of Arab youth journalism attracted the greatest number of participants at this session: the General Secretariat received 568 young journalists working in the Arab press, followed by 434 press interviews,, Binding as well the economic, humanitarian, cultural, sports, political, cartoon, image and intelligent categories.

The Deputy Director of the award noted that recent developments in the process of sorting works contributed to improving the efficiency of participants and overcoming obstacles to arbitration committees, as well as enlargement. price, thereby helping to expand the geographical area of ​​the countries participating in the award. And 18 foreign countries, including Spain, Korea, Bangladesh, Austria, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Spain, the United States, Australia, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, America, Switzerland, France and Turkey.