Al-Omrani’s poems are crowned “Diwan Al-Arab”

Yesterday, Tuesday, the cultural magazine “Diwan Al-Arab” announced the winners of its cultural awards in the tenth session of its literary competitions, which were organized this year in the field of Arabic poetry, in its three branches (the sea poem, the ta’feela poem, and the prose poem), including the Moroccan Muhammad Al-Omrani. .

The Moroccan poet Mohamed Al-Omrani won the “Diwan Al-Arab” award in the prose poem branch, for his work “Visions from the Book of Hermes,” along with poets from Egypt and Syria.

Al-Omrani is the recipient of several awards, including the Al-Rafidain Award (2022-2023), the Diwan Al-Arab Short Story Award 2019 for the story “Injection of Silence,” the Iraq Bookshelf Award for the short story 2021, and the Khabar International Agency Competition Award for the Very Short Story for the year 2021 for the collection “I Am.” “I see galaxies of butterflies and birds.”

The jury for the prose poem section included academic and Moroccan writer Mustafa Yali, along with Palestinian journalist and poet Amal Awad Radwan, and storyteller, novelist and critic Najma Habib from Palestine.

In the “Sea Poem” section, poets from Egypt, Sudan, and Syria won the award. As for the section of the Tafila poem, poets from Egypt, Syria and Tunisia were crowned.

The editor-in-chief of “Diwan Al-Arab” and head of the competition’s organizing committee, Adel Salem, said that the advisory board of “Diwan Al-Arab” decided to dedicate this year’s session to commemorating the late Egyptian poet Mahmoud Qarni, where the winners will be given a shield of loyalty to the memory of the great poet.

Salem stated that the competition’s organizing committee received entries from 500 male and female poets, with a total of 664 participants, from 26 countries around the world. The three competition jury committees evaluated the texts, which resulted in 13 competitors winning the competition, who were invited to participate in the celebration and receive their financial prizes and shields of appreciation.

The same spokesman confirmed that the competition organizing committee will continue the tradition followed in Diwan competitions since its inception, by honoring a group of symbols of Arab culture, as this year three symbols of Arab culture will be honored within the celebration, namely the Egyptian novelists Saad Al-Qarsh and Wahid Al-Tawila, in addition to the Moroccan poet Sabah. The short one.