Bibliotheca Alexandrina has announced the winners of the second edition of its Young Creators Award, which recognises participants aged 18 to 45 across seven literary, artistic and knowledge-based categories.
The award attracted nearly 500 applicants this year, according to the library. Each category carries a prize of EGP 100,000, with winners selected by independent specialist judging committees.
Talal Faisal won the fiction category for his novel “An Ancient Egyptian Madness,” while Alaa Fouda received the Arabic poetry award for her collection “I Cut Off My Branch from the Family Tree.” Hossam El-Adly won the philosophical and social thought category for his work on political thought, “The Abduction of Athens.”
Shady Abdel Fattah won the visual arts award for his printmaking work “Worlds.” The technology award, covering robotics, programming and artificial intelligence, went to the Stabila project, led by Mohamed Ahmed El-Sayed Abdel Ghany Mahmoud, with Menna Hamdy, Youssef Hassan, Shehab Ahmed and Fatima Shatta.
Saeed Ali Salman and Omnia Bahy shared the theatre acting award, while Ziad Alaa Galal Bassiouni won the entrepreneurship category for his AWANI project.
The library said the prizes and certificates will be presented at a cultural and artistic ceremony, with the date to be announced later.
Source: Masrawy
