The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, headed by Dr. Mostafa El Feki, Director of the Library, won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for the Publishing and Cultural Technologies Branch.
Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina and six literary figures, translators, and intellectuals were honored in the 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award—organized and administered by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center (part of the emirate’s Department of Culture and Tourism) under the direction of Dr. Ali Bin Tamim.
The program has today (May 9) announced its winners in seven of its nine categories for this year, having received a record of more than 3,000 applications from at least 55 markets, 20 of them Arab nations.
This is the award's 16th edition, allocating a purse of 750,000 UAE dirhams (US$204,215) in each of the eight book categories and 1 million UAE Dirhams (US$272,286) for the Cultural Personality of the Year laureate.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is among the wealthiest portfolios of publishing-related honors in the world, worth a total of 7 million dirhams (US$1.9 million). All winners in the competition receive gold medals.
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