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Written By: Khalid al-Syaghi
Article Date: May 31, 2008 - 1:15:31 PM
Hassan Ahmed al-Lawzi
The Contesting National Unification Hymns and Songs Assessment Committee, presided over by the president’s cultural advisor Dr. Abdul-Aziz al-Maqaleh, reviewed various poems submitted to a recent contest dealing with Yemeni unification. The review sessions was attended by Information Minister Hassan al-Lawzi and other various committee members where 307 works were handed to each committee member for review.
The committee was divided into two divisions, one for assessing the poems in traditional Arabic language, and the other for poems formulated in local dialect.
The Information Ministry announced to Saba news agency that the Ministry will publish and distribute all the poems that win the first prize, a YR one million prize. Second prize will win YR 600,000 and third with YR 300,000. There will also be five runner-up prizes of YR 100,000 each, followed by YR 50,000 for honorable mention.
Dr. Abdul-Aziz al-Maqaleh
The contest was announced by the Culture Minister through various radio and TV channels with libraries of new unification songs and hymns. The winning poems were composed and demonstrated at the first hymns and songs’ festival, and will be performed by first class singers at the festival.
The festival will be held in Sana’a together with the Arab guests participating in this festival. The various contenders are allowed to compete with newly formulated songs, twelve verses long that have not been published before.
