Kuwin Wins Best Documentary Film Award at the Arab Media Excellence Awards

“Descendants of Hanthala” Wins Top Honor at the 10th Edition in Cairo... Honoring Several Kuwaiti Media Professionals

Kuwait won the award for Best Documentary Film for the production “Descendants of Hanthala,” alongside the recognition of four of its media professionals at the 10th 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, 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 professionals included Maher Al-Anzi, Nader Karam, Hessa Al-Qadhir, 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 award for Best Documentary Film for “Descendants of Hanthala,” produced by Moudi Al-Rashidi. Algeria won the award for Best Television Report for a piece titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Protection of Religious Authority.” 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.” 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 her piece “Decoding the Black Box of the Zionist-American Cyber-Target Bank.” Moroccan journalist Waqaa Bloui 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 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 an image titled “A Rare Moment of the Socotra Cormorant at 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,” prepared by Mohammed Al-Qar’an. The award for Best Work Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies went to Saudi Arabia for the piece “This is Jazan.”

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

The awards also honored several Arab media institutions, including 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 Union of Arab Radio and Television Stations, 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 the quality of media content, and keeping pace with technological transformations in the media industry.