This year's Edition has the largest number of submissions in various fields
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The new book looks at ancient Egyptian myths around the Nile, the historical lifeline of Egypt and the current water conflict over the Ethiopian Dam
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Winners of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards will receive a gold medal, a certificate of merit and a prize of AED 750,000 each ($204,000)
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Minister of Education Tarek Shawki said that the project targeted 54,000 public and private schools, of which 18,901 took part in the project — i.e., 35 percent of all schools across the country
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Taibaoui won for his novel Ikhtifa’ Al-Sayyed La Ahad (The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody)
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Each of the six shortlisted authors will receive $10,000, with the winner receiving an additional $50,000
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El-Saadawi was the founder and president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights
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The 15th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is the largest in its history in terms of the number of nominations, with the award receiving a total of 2,349 across its nine categories this year
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The longlist included one Egyptian author this year, Mansoura Ezz Eldin, who was nominated for her novel The Orchards of Basra
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Barghouti died in Amman on 14 February at the age of 76
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The shortlist includes three Egyptian writers along with an Algerian, Syrian and a Yemeni writer
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The complete works brought to the reader by Alaa El-Din Mahmoud, the editor of the book, introduces the reader to forgotten works of El-Nadeem, some of which were never known before
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As the year 2020 opened with the death of one of Egypt's young writers it closed with the death of four prominent writers who left their mark on the Egyptian literary world
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The awards announced the shortlists for the emerging writers in each category but did not announce the shortlist for the established writers’ division
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His passing was announced by his daughter, Reham Farouk, on Facebook
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The shortlist is expected to be announced in February 2021, and the winner will be announced between March and April
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Kafrawy's passion was short stories, which he became one of its pillars of in Egypt
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Fisk's criticism of the US foreign policies shaped his opinion on much of the events that rocked the Middle East in recent history from the First Gulf war in 1991 to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
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