Kuwin Wins Best Documentary Film Award at Arab Media Excellence Awards Ceremony in Cairo

Cairo, November 4 (KUNA) -- Kuwait won the award for Best Documentary Film for the work “Descendants of Hanzala,” alongside the honoring of four of its media personalities, as part of the Arab Media Excellence Awards in their tenth edition. The ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Arab League Secretariat General in Cairo, under the patronage of the State of Kuwait, with the participation of Kuwait’s Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology and Acting Minister of Media and Culture, Omar Al-Omar, and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy.

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

The event 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 award for Best Documentary Film for “Descendants of Hanzala” by Moudi Al-Rashidi. Algeria won the award for Best Television Report for the work “Artificial Intelligence and Protection of Religious Authority,” while the award for Best Television Awareness Flash was withheld.

In the radio category, Morocco won the award for Best Radio Investigation for the report “The Young Journalist,” and the award for Best Radio Awareness Flash went to the State of Palestine 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 Zionist-American 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 award for Best Video for the film “Mahsina,” 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 Jordanian News Agency (Petra) won the award for Best Investigation for the work “Artificial Intelligence: A Crucial Technology for Digital Journalism in Confronting Fake News,” prepared 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 included Bahraini Issa Al-Shayhi, Egyptians Dr. Mona Al-Hadidi and writer Farouq Gouida, Moroccan Idriss Bou Sarhan, alongside the Kuwaiti media personalities.

The awards also honored several Arab media institutions, including the Jordanian 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 Network, and the Arab Satellite Broadcasting Organization.

The Arab Media Excellence Awards are part of initiatives aimed at enhancing Arab media production, encouraging creativity and innovation, improving media content quality, and keeping pace with technological transformations in the media industry. (End) M.M. / A.M.S.