Leading Arab authors and artists to grace Sharjah reading festival

Sharjah: Eleven Arab artists and authors, identified for his or her excellent contribution to youngsters’s arts and literature, will headline the twelfth version of the Sharjah Kids’s Studying Competition (SCRF) going down at Sharjah Expo Centre from Might 19 — 29.

The 11-day academic occasion, organised by Sharjah E book Authority (SBA), will carry the theme ‘For Your Creativeness. There shall be a complete of 537 interactive classes, together with workshops and performs — a few of which shall be held on the bottom, whereas others shall be organised by way of digital platforms.

Famend Egyptian actor and comic Ahmed Amin, a well-liked author and present presenter within the area, well-known for his 30-second YouTube movies, shall be presenting the Plateau present. Kids’s writer Nisreen Jaafar Al Noor, from Bahrain, may even take part within the upcoming SCRF version. Her physique of labor contains tales and articles in outstanding magazines for youngsters, together with Al Arabi Al Sagheer. She has additionally written a number of books, together with Qisat Fanan.

Omani poet Dr. Wafa Al Shamsi, some of the distinguished feminine authors within the Arab literary world, will share her poetry and different literary items, together with fiction and performs, which have gained many prestigious awards.

The pageant may even host UAE artist and illustrator Aysha Al Hemrani, whose digital artwork takes inspiration from Emirati popular culture whereas drawing robust aesthetic cues from her childhood.

The record of different outstanding figures to attend SCRF will embrace famend Egyptian youngsters’s writer Tayeb Adib; Jordanian Fida Al Zumar, winner of the ISESCO award for her work Ahlam Al Tfoolah; Egyptian youngsters’s writer Amro Samir Atef and Iraqi critic Hussein Ali Harf, a famend knowledgeable in youngster and youth affairs, puppetry and faculty theatre. They may even be joined by Kuwaiti writer Huda Al Shawwa Qadoumi, winner of Sheikh Zayed E book Award for her youngsters’s story Rehlat Al Tair Ela Jabal Qaf.

Saudi writer, media character and researcher in youngsters’s literature and tradition, Faraj Al Dhafeeri, may even be current, in addition to Kuwaiti youngsters’s writer Heba Ismail Mandani, who's well-known for her assortment of tales titled Ahla Ayami