Kuwin Wins Best Documentary Film Award for 'Descendants of Hanthala' at Arab Media Excellence Awards Ceremony in Cairo

Kuwait won the award for Best Documentary Film for the work “Descendants of Hanzala,” alongside the honoring of four of its media personalities, at the tenth edition of the Arab Media Excellence Awards. The ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Arab League Secretariat in Cairo, under the patronage of the State of Kuwait and with the participation of Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby.

The list of honored Kuwaiti media personalities included Maher Al-Anzi, Nader Karam, Hessa Al-Qadhrum, Manayer Al-Qallaf, and Moudi Al-Rashidi, in recognition of their professional careers and contributions to the media field.

The ceremony saw the distribution of awards to a number of outstanding media works across categories including television, radio, print journalism, and digital media.

In the television category, Kuwait won the Best Documentary Film award for “Descendants of Hanzala,” produced by Moudi Al-Rashidi. Algeria won the Best Television Report award for the work titled “Artificial Intelligence and Protecting Religious Authority.” The award for Best Television Awareness Flash was withheld.

In the radio category, Morocco won the Best Radio Investigation award for the report “The Young Journalist,” while Palestine received the award for Best Radio Awareness Flash for the work “Arab Media and Artificial Intelligence… Who Tells the Story.”

In the print journalism category, Egyptian journalist Monica Ayad, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Al-Wafd newspaper, won the award for Best Investigative Report for the work “Decoding the Black Box of the US-Israeli Cyber-Target Bank.” Moroccan journalist Waqaa Beloui won the award for Best Opinion Column for the article “Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms: Augmented Journalist or Silent Test of Ethics?”

In the digital media category, the United Arab Emirates won the Best Video award for the film “Mohsenah,” produced by the Higher Colleges of Technology. Bahrain’s Al-Ayam newspaper won the award for Best Photograph for the image “A Rare Moment of the Socotri Cormorant in the Hawar Islands.”

The Jordan News Agency (Petra) won the award for Best Investigation for the work “Artificial Intelligence: A Crucial Technology for Digital Journalism in Confronting Fake News,” produced by Mohammed Al-Qar’an. The award for Best Work Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies went to Saudi Arabia for the work “This is Jazan.”

The list of honored media figures also included Bahraini Isa Al-Shaikh, Egyptians Dr. Mona Al-Hadidi and writer Farouk Qouaida, and Moroccan Idriss Bou Sarhan, alongside the Kuwaiti media personalities.

The awards also honored several Arab media institutions: the Jordan Media Institute, the Higher Institute of Media and Communication in Morocco, Cairo News Channel, Al-Ahram Foundation, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, the Arab Radio and Television Union, and the Arab Satellite Broadcasting Organization.

The Arab Media Excellence Awards are part of efforts to support initiatives aimed at elevating Arab media production, encouraging creativity and innovation, enhancing media content quality, and keeping pace with technological transformations in the media industry.