Asilah celebrates Arabic poetry and crowns an Iraqi and a Moroccan with the Buland Al-Haydari Prize for Young Poets – Al-Yaoum 24

The Asilah Forum Foundation awarded the Buland Al-Haydari Prize for Young Arab Poets in its eighth edition, jointly, to Iraqi poet Zain Al-Abidin Al-Murshidi and Moroccan poet Abu Bakr Al-Militi, during a ceremony hosted in the city of Asilah on Saturday, as part of the autumn session of the 47th International Asilah Cultural Festival, in a celebratory occasion that reaffirmed the status of poetry in the city's cultural project and the role of the prize in discovering new creative Arab voices.
The ceremony, which included poetry readings by the winners with the participation of Moroccan poet Ikram Abdi, who won the prize in 2008, served as an occasion to evoke the literary legacy of the Iraqi poet Buland Al-Haydari, whose centenary coincides with the current session. It also highlighted the trajectory of the prize, which, since its establishment in 2000, has contributed to introducing a…