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Prince of Poets: Fourth season launched
posted on 22/12/2010: 67 views
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) rolled out the 4th season of the biggest competition of classical Arabic poetry in the Arab world - "Prince of Poets". The announcement of the launching of the new season of the poetry competition which has captivated the entire Arab world came at a press conference that was addressed by Director of Communications at ADACH Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Director of the Poetry Academy and Member of the Higher Committee Sultan Al-Amimi and Director of Special Projects at Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage Eissa Al-Mazrouei.
The Prince of Poets programme is sponsored and produced by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage. The winner of the first place receives the title of the "Prince of Poets" and a cash prize of one million Emirati dirhams, in addition to the Burdah of the Emirate Award, which represents the historical heritage of Arabs, and the Seal of the Emirate, which stands for the title of the emirate.
Forty poets carefully chosen from 7000 poets from around the world will compete for the title in four stages.
The first stage consists of five episodes. In each episode four poets compete, where the judging panel submits 50% of the grading points while qualifying one poet directly to the next stage of the competition. The viewers vote for the other 50% of points, enabling them to choose their favourite poets out of the remaining three in every evening. In the next episode, two of the poets with the highest vote percentage from viewers (in addition to the points from the judging panel) qualify to the second stage, and thus 15 poets qualify for the first stage.
The second stage consists of 3 episodes. In each episode five poets compete, where the judging panel awards 50% of the grading points while viewers vote for the other 50%. One competitor passes on to the next stage. The four remaining poets compete for the votes of viewers throughout the week to qualify. In the following episode, after the announcement of final results, the poet who wins the highest percentage of viewers vote in addition to the judging panel's points will qualify.
In the third stage, six poets will compete in an evening filled with excitement. The judging panel will give 60% of the points, divided into 30% given in this episode and 30% given in the final episode. Viewers would start to vote with the end of the evening for one week to give 40% of the final points.
At the beginning of the final episode, the poet with the lowest percentage of the total vote and 30% of the judging panel vote will leave. The competition will be limited to five poets only, who will continue the challenge to reach the title. The judging panel will give poets 30% of the total points. At the end of the episode, all the points will be added and counted to announce the final results that determine the top five poets, crowning the winner the title of "Prince of Poets" for the fourth session.
Al Mazroui said: "We expect the fourth edition to see a strong competition between the poets to win the title of "Prince of Poets", particularly as the contest has reverberated through the world, attracting wide media coverage that treated it with importance equal to the importance of the high aim for which this competition was launched. As a literary, cultural competition concerned with classical poetry, it has become number one and the most powerful with the largest audiences. The change of the broadcast time from summer, as was the case in the previous years, to winter will help attract more millions of audiences who taste the classical Arabic poetry".
In a read out message, Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Advisor for Culture and Heritage in the Court of HH the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Director General of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, said: "If English is the language of business and work, French is the language of love and romance, and Russian is the language of politics, then Arabic is the unrivalled language of poetry. What is poetry if not the embodiment of the tongue of the Arabs?".
Al Amimi said: "We had the idea to establish an institution specialising in poetry to preserve it as Arab cultural heritage at the time of huge global openness which has swept through our lives with a driving wind of change. Poetry has continued to be the spiritual bridge that connects us to ourselves and to former generations whose immortal achievements are still alive in our memories".
Over 7000 poets from forty countries submitted their nominations for the most thrilling contest in the Arabic language. Among them forty poets from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Yemen, UAE, Mali and Chad republic. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
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