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The American Library Association Carnegie Award (formerly the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence) honors the best fiction and nonfiction of…
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The American Library Association (ALA) has selected A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf) by Megha Majumdar as the winner of the 2026…
His Excellency Sheikh Thani bin Hamad al-Thani (centre) with the winners. His Excellency Sheikh Thani bin Hamad al-Thani, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), honoured the winners of the 3rd Arab Book Award at an official ceremony Tuesday. The ceremony was organised at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. In this year’s single-book category for linguistic and literary studies – focusing on literary and critical examinations of Arab heritage up to the end of the 10th century AH – Abdullah al-Rashid was awarded first place for his work The Recording of Debauchery in the Arab Heritage: Presentation, Explanation, and Interpretation. Second place went to Amer Abu Muharib for his book Treasures of the Forgotten: The Etiquette of the Followers in the Literary Heritage – Genres, Rhetoric, and Archives.Third place was awarded to Khalid Abdul Raouf al-Jabr for his book Reception in the Arab Intellectual Heritage. In the field of historical studies, this session was dedicated to Arab and Islamic history from the end of the 6th century AH to the end of the 12th century AH. Nasser al-Rabat won second place for his work on Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi’s The Conscience of Egyptian History, and Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim also won second place (a tie) for his book Noah’s Ark: Eastern Migrations to Egypt and the Levant during the Mamluk Sultanate. HE Sheikh Thani also presented awards to the winners in the field of Islamic sciences and studies, which focused on biography and hadith studies. Ahmed Sanoubar won second place for his book Political Authority and the Movement of Hadith Transmission and Criticism: A Historical Study of the Hadiths on the Virtues of the Companions, and Mohammed Anas Sarmini received an encouragement award for his book The Definitive and the Probable between the People of Opinion and the People of Hadith. In the field of social and philosophical studies, which focuses on intellectual and economic studies, Sawsan al-Otaibi won third place for her book The Concept of Man According to Taha Abd al-Rahman. In the field of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and textual criticism, Yasser al-Dumyati won for his Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence According to the Four Schools of Thought. HE Sheikh Thani also presented the Arab Book Award to the individual winners in the Achievement category: Dr Kian Ahmed Hazem from Iraq, Dr Muhammad Suhail Taqoush from Lebanon, Dr Muhammad Saleh al-Musfir from Qatar, Mukhtar al-Ghouth from Mauritania, Muqbil al-Tam al-Ahmadi from Yemen, and Dr Nadia Mustafa from Egypt. The Institutional Achievement Award was presented to the Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage in UAE, Dar al-Ihyaa Publishing and Distribution from Morocco, and Dar Kunooz al-Ma’rifah from Jordan. Related Story
Doha, Qatar: The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), HE Sheikh Thani bin…
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