Sharjah Ruler honours winners of Al Qawafi Award

His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah congratulated the winners of the Al Qawafi Award 2025, praising the poems they presented for reflecting their love of poetry and their commitment to promoting and highlighting it for readers. He commended the distinction in their choice of themes and use of language, which demonstrates the poets’ high literary standard and linguistic richness. His Highness also thanked them for their efforts in the field of Arabic poetry and for the poems they contribute to enriching the poetic and literary scene, urging them to present more works and to actively participate in various cultural and literary events and activities.

His Highness presented the awards to the winning poets, each of whom recited their award-winning poem. The poems addressed a wide range of themes, including elegy, pride in the homeland, reflection on the self and nature, while several poets also celebrated Sharjah as a shining beacon in the firmament of Arab culture and literature. At the conclusion of the meeting, His Highness greeted the poets and attendees and received a number of special gifts from the poets, including poetry collections and books.

The honoured poets expressed their sincere appreciation to the Ruler of Sharjah for his continued support of poets, writers, and creatives across all fields of literature and the arts, and for honouring them by selecting and publishing their poems as part of the distinguished record of the Al Qawafi Award.

The ceremony featured recitations by Hussein Al Abdullah from Syria with “If It Rained Gold”; Ahmed Shalaby from Egypt with “Standing in the Middle of a Dream”; Rashed Issa from Jordan with “A Whisper from the Island of Light”; and Noufal Al Saeedi from Morocco with “The City’s Child”.

Also reciting were Omar Al Raji with “The Stranger of Andalusia”; Zakaria Mustafa with “A Rose for the Guardian of Meaning”; Hamza Al Youssef with “Echo”; Abdullah Abdel Sabour with “To the Soul of My Father”; and Mohammed Saeed Al Atiq with “Virtues”.