"A Ceremony Honoring Creative Figures Who Illuminate Arab Life", a Page from al-Arabi al-Yaum Newspaper, 22 October 1997

Issued on 22 October 1997, this page from al-Arabi al-Yaum Newspaper features a news article entitled "A Ceremony Honoring Creative Figures Who Illuminate Arab Life" about awarding a set of recognition prizes to the Jordanian Writers Association at the Royal Cultural Center in Jordan. The Syrian poet Mamdouh Adwan won the Arar Prize for Literary Creativity, the storyteller Rashad Abu Shawar the Irani Prize for Short Story, Taher al-Adwan the Yacoub Oweis Prize for Article, Saleh Abu Esbaa the Ghaleb Halsa Prize for Cultural Creativity, the poet Muhammad Lafi the Abdul Rahim Omar Award for Best Arabic Diwan of Poetry, Bassam Shakaa the Munther Anabtawi Prize for Human Rights, and the poet Ali al-Batri the Khalil Sakakini Prize for Child Literature.