The Board of Trustees of King Abdullah II Award for Innovation announced the winning of Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Nimer from Science and Technology University of the first award in the sciences area, during the Board’s session held at Al Hussein Cultural Center, presided over by the Chairman of the Board, Abdel R’aouf Al Rawabdeh, and in the presence of the members of the Trustees Board.
The arbitration committees decided in the fifth year to shelf the award for arts and literature, and Arab towns areas, as the Board previously decided, during the nomination period, to have participations from arts and literature limited to “biography and life story” topic, from science “applied research on renewal energy” topic, and from Arab towns “innovative traffic solutions”.
According to the arbitration committee, the winning of Dr. Nimer is attributed to his valuable researches in renewal energy. The Committee justified its decision by the fact that these researches provide innovative ideas on how to use, produce, transport, and store the renewal energy resources, suggest new methods to utilize such resources, or modifications to the traditional methods in order to raise their efficiency, especially that the presented researches are distinguished with their applicability and possibility of utilization in the Arab world.
As for the Committee’s decision of shelving the award for arts and literature; it was attributed to the absence of the necessary elements of a complete biography in all the presented works, and to the fact that most of them did not consider concordance, and parallel between auto-biography and the current prevailing conditions.
The Committee clarified that some works adopted the direct narration at the expense of the artistic structure , others used a very typical historical method, and their works sounded like history books instead of being creative in arts and literature. Some of the presented works were drafted in a very artistic, imaginative, or linguistic way, which eventually make it appear as a novel or a poem, while some works were ostentatious without any kind of excitement and attraction, where some writings had nothing new or creative to add.
Many works showed intellectual and cultural triviality, narrating the events superficially with several massive errors.
There were also writings full of symbolism and ambiguousness causing the loss of the most important element of biography writing, openness and honesty to the reader.
The committee complained that many of the works on hand did not take into consideration the concordance between the biography subject and its artistic form, others had no historical or social significance and indications on the general conditions where the writer grew and lived; some of the writings exaggerated the details and were limited to a very specific period or event in the author’s life, such as sickness, detention, arrest, or others.
The reasons behind calling off the award for Arab town area were justified by the fact that many of the writings do not fall within the innovative traffic solutions’ field, lack of creativity, distinctiveness, and individuality, lack of suitable resolutions for the problem, and repeating basic and well known ideas without clear presentation.
The award consists of a certificate with the winner’s name, his work’s title, and a cash prize worth of JOD 25,000 for each topic of the award’s, a golden medal with GAM’s logo and the award’s name.
It is worth noting that the Board of Trustees of the Award comprises Naser Eddin Al Assad, Omar Maani, Laila Sharaf, Kamel Abu Jaber, Hammam Ghaseeb, Ibrahim Ezz Eddin, Khaled Al Karaki, and Suleiman Arabiat.
