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Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Edition 11 (2017)

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
Lateefa Buti Winner

Written as children’s literature, the book gently explores acceptance, coexistence, and the value of difference. Its imaginative shape encourages an open view of the world around us.

A gentle story about the importance of acceptance.

children’s literaturecoexistencediversityimaginationfriendship
Mohammad Chahrour Achievement Award

An intellectual work that reconsiders basic ideas of faith, social consciousness, and religious belonging in order to reframe modern understandings of Islam. Its reformist outlook encourages ethical reflection rather than polemic.

It reframes religion and society as a question of thought, not just institutions.

religious thoughtfaithsocial consciousnessreformIslam
Ziad Bou Akl Winner

A French translation of an Arabic study on Ibn Rushd that organizes the core of Arab thought around the relationship between law and philosophy. Through translation and annotation, it extends the ground for comparative intellectual history.

Translation makes the link between law and philosophy in Arab thought more visible.

501 pages
Islamic jurisprudencetranslationArab philosophyscholarshipcomparative thought
Abbas Beydoun Winner

A novel by a Lebanese poet-writer set in an Arab village, tracing a father-son relationship shaped by violence and authoritarian pressure. Its lyrical voice turns social critique into a layered fable.

Father-son rupture and violence unfold as a village fable.

190 pages
familyviolenceauthoritarianismfableLebanese literature

A critical study that examines the possibilities of literary fiction through references to myth and philosophical debate. It probes how imagination works in literature from both theoretical and practical angles.

It reconsiders the power of fiction from both theory and example.

literary theorymythphilosophycriticismimagination
David Wirmer Winner

A research book that traces the movement from thinking about nature to the nature of thought through the intersection of philosophy after Kant and biology. By linking conceptual history with the history of science, it reconsiders the frame of modern thought.

It rethinks the shape of thought at the point where philosophy meets biology.

784 pages
history of philosophybiologyconceptual historyscholarshipGerman thought
Kalimat Group Winner