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

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

The list of honored Kuwaiti media figures included Maher Al-Anzi, Nader Karam, Hessa Al-Qadhir, Manar Al-Qallaf, and Moudi Al-Rashidi, in recognition of their professional careers and contributions to the media field. The ceremony also saw the distribution of awards to a number of outstanding media works across television, radio, print journalism, and digital media categories.

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 a work titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Protection of Religious Reference.” 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 the State of 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 her work “Decoding the Black Box of the Zionist-American Cyber Goals Bank.” Moroccan journalist Waqaa Beloui won the award for Best Opinion Column for his 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 “Muhsina,” produced by the Colleges of Higher Technology. Bahrain’s Al-Ayam newspaper won the Best Photo award for an image titled “A Rare Moment of the Socotri Cormorant Bird 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,” produced by Mohammed Al-Qur’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 personalities also included Bahraini Eissa Al-Shayji, Egyptians Dr. Mona Al-Hadidi and writer Farouq Gouaida, and Moroccan Idriss Bou Sarhan, alongside the Kuwaiti media figures. The awards also honored several Arab media institutions: the Jordanian Media Institute, the Higher Institute of Media and Communication in Morocco, Al-Qahera News Channel, the Egyptian Al-Ahram Foundation, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, the Union of Arab Radio and Television Stations, 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.