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Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Edition 8 (2014)

Sheikh Zayed Award for ArtsSheikh Zayed Award for Best Technology in the Cultural FieldSheikh Zayed Award for Children's LiteratureSheikh Zayed Award for Cultural Personality of the YearSheikh Zayed Award for Development and State BuildingSheikh Zayed Award for LiteratureSheikh Zayed Award for Manuscript EditingSheikh Zayed Award for Publishing and DistributionSheikh Zayed Award for TranslationSheikh Zayed Award for Young AuthorPublishing and TechnologyLiterary and Art CriticismArabic Culture in Other LanguagesPublishing and Distribution

Winners

8 people
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud あぶどっらー びん あぶどぅるあずぃーず Winner
サイード・アブドゥッラー・アル・ソヤン さいーど あぶどぅっらー ある そやん Achievement Award

A sweeping study that follows the idea of evolution beyond biology into social, cultural, linguistic, and economic history.

Human evolution is reconsidered across multiple fields of study.

1104 pages
evolutionhuman historysocial sciencecultural historyscholarship
Jawdat Fakhr Eldine じゃうだと ふぁふる えるでぃーね Winner

Thirty poems on nature, family, school, play, and imagination introduce children to the rhythm and sound of Arabic verse.

Gentle language and poetic rhythm open a child’s senses and imagination.

64 pages
children’s poetryArabic languagenatureimaginationeducation
ラミ・アブ・シハブ らみ あぶ しはぶ Winner

A critical study that maps post-colonial discourse in contemporary Arab criticism from both theoretical and practical angles.

The book presents a new horizon for criticism as a theoretical map.

287 pages
post-colonial studiesArab criticismcultural theoryliterary criticismscholarship
Mohammed Al Tahir Al Mansouri もはめど ある-たひーる ある-まんすーり Winner

A historical study of how lodging, trade, and travel institutions developed across the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The history of inns, trade, and travel becomes a way to reread the interconnected Mediterranean world.

440 pages
Mediterranean historylodgingtradetravelmedieval studies
Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi あぶでる らしーど まふむーでぃ Winner

A man raised in an Egyptian village travels through Ismailia and Vienna across four decades, moving through love, music, and exile.

A life that begins in the village and expands across cities and continents is told with quiet intensity.

421 pages
Egypttravelmusiclovelonging
Mario Liverani まりお りゔぇらーに Winner

A major work of history and archaeology that traces how ancient Babylon has been imagined and reconstructed in the modern era.

The book follows modern imagination around the question of “real Babylon.”

488 pages
ancient Near EastBabylonarchaeologyhistoriographyscholarship
ハウス・オブ・ウィズダム(House of Wisdom) はうす おぶ うぃずだむ Winner