The Palestinian artist Suleiman Mansour won the “Nile Award for Arab Creators”, a plastic artist, sculptor and owner of the famous painting “The Camel of Lighter”, which depicts an old Palestinian holder of Jerusalem and the Al -Aqsa Rock on his back tied to the rope of misery, and he drew it in the 1970s. The “Nile Award” is one of the most extensive awards granted by the Egyptian state and won this year from Egypt in the field of architectural arts, Dr. Saleh Lami, and in the field of literature, Dr. Ahmed Darwish, and in the field of social sciences, Dr. Ahmed Zayed.
The Minister of Culture, Ahmed Fouad Hano, stressed that the Nile Awards represent the summit of cultural honor in Egypt, and reflects the deep belief of the state with the value of thought, art and creativity in the future industry, indicating that the winners of this award represent high models in scientific, artistic and cultural giving.
The minister announced a major celebration that will be held in the Opera House to honor the winners of the state awards this year, and called on the Supreme Council of Culture Council to convene during the coming days to discuss proposals to develop the mechanisms of the council’s work, discuss the proposed amendments to the internal regulations and reshape some of the qualitative committees.
The Supreme Council of Culture held its 72nd periodic meeting on Saturday to vote on the state awards for the year 2025 in the fields of arts, literature and social sciences, which are granted annually in appreciation of the contributions of creators and researchers and in support of their creative and scientific career, and in the presence of members of the Supreme Council of Culture in its new formation, along with other members by virtue of their positions, the ministers of tourism, antiquities, education, higher education and scientific research, And representatives of a number of other ministries. The short list of award candidates had been announced earlier in the announcement of the prizes to be nominated by technical unions, cultural bodies, universities and research centers.
The State Appreciation Awards are in the following rank in terms of importance and material and moral value of the Nile Awards, which he won in the field of theater, theater director Shaker Abdel Latif, the director of cinematic photography Samir Faraj, the plastic artist Abdel Wahab Abdel Mohsen, and in the field of arts obtained by the poet Ahmed Al -Shahawi, Dr. Khairi Duma, and the writer Fatima Al -Muqdoul, while she went in the field of social sciences for each of the social sciences. Jaafar, Muhammad Sameh Amr, Mona Hajjaj, and Nevin Massad.
Hanu stressed that the Nile Awards represent the summit of cultural honor in Egypt, and reflects the deep belief of the state with the value of thought, art and creativity in the future industry, noting that the winners of this award represent high models in scientific, artistic and cultural giving.
The critic Ahmed Saad El -Din promised this year’s state awards bearing important names, whether the departed, such as the pianist, Mushira Issa, who won the Excellence Award, or the estimated that went to the director of cinematic photography, Samir Faraj, who filmed about 140 long feature films for senior directors and artists, and won many prizes about her, and he is a professor at the Film Institute and took over the graduation of many generations of photographers, and still has a great giving.
The name of the late pianist, Mushira Issa, won the Excellence Award in Arts, several months after her departure last February after a struggle with the disease. It was one of the most important piano musicians in Egypt and the world. She also won her in the field of plastic arts, the artist Nazli Madkour, who returned to win the award “a sweet surprise”, confirming that she is not looking for prizes, especially since the prizes are usually awarded to academic cadres, and that she is outside this circle, but it is a great appreciation from the state cherish him, noting that the artist does not stop at a certain age as long as he has the ability to give.
In the field of state promotional prizes for creative youth, 28 awards were awarded in the fields of arts, literature, social sciences and legal sciences, while 4 awards were withheld. In the field of arts, 6 awards were awarded, including the Al -Azzaf Branch on the piano and won by the musician Nagmiya Safwat, and won the script branch Mahmoud Zain for the scenario of the short film “There is no consolation for women”, and the “Theatrical Swosh” award. For Nihad Al -Sayed about the design of the decor and clothes of the “Diaspora” play, and in the field of arts, 8 awards were awarded, including the historical and heritage novel of the author, Doaa Jamal Al -Badi, for her novel “Western does not eat the dead”, while Ahmed Yasser Fathi won the anecdotal group award for his collection, “A very unitary city”.
The writer Hala Al -Badri expressed her surprise that the creators only received 10 percent of this year’s prizes, hoping that the prizes will open to women, not because of their sex but for their competence, stressing that her opinion is not a bias “but by reviewing the winners’ numbers we will confirm this result, “adding in statements to” Al -Sharq Al -Awsat “, that” the state prizes are the most neutral prizes and the arbitrators are made in it. Jabara to choose because of the large numbers that are nominated, ”noting that the prizes this year went to shiny names that were sincere for art, literature and social sciences.”
Al -Badri shows her reservation to “block some of the promotional prizes”, pointing out that “its purpose is to stimulate new talents, and it is normal in their beginning that production is not at its highest levels.”
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