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In the name of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, there are many initiatives and integrated strategies that direct their attention towards advancing the cultural scene in the Emirates, nurturing the creative economy sector in the emirate, and enhancing its contribution to its economy.

This is an approach that His Highness chose, inspired by the best of what he learned in the leadership school of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him.

Before that, and then simultaneously with him, His Highness emerged as a contributor in his own right, as one of the pillars of culture in the Emirates, and a poet who is considered one of the most prominent representatives of Nabati poetry, which represents an authentic literary genre that provides Arab culture with bridges that connect its present with its past, and connects creative voices and the cultural values ​​of culture. Islamic Arabic.

The flowing poetic river, represented by the creative achievements of His Highness, was an essential tributary that enriched the Arabic song and strengthened the musical library with new words, concepts, meters and ideas.

His Highness’s creative contributions have expanded to include the arts, as the creative scene in the Emirates has been enriched by the achievements he has made in the field of photography, whether through the special innovations His Highness presented in this field, or through his support for this art, enhancing its presence in the Emirates, and encouraging broader sectors of youth to enter In his field.

In this context, the efforts and initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, included one of the most important sectors, and the one most connected to identity and consolidating the pillars of national culture. His Highness, under his patronage, included heritage in its fields, paid attention to its vocabulary, and established a presence for it. Institutionally effective. In parallel, His Highness established traditions of communication with the Arab cultural environment, especially the Gulf, and established platforms for interaction between creators and cultural producers in the Emirates and their peers in other Arab cultural arenas.

Qualitative contributions

Over the course of sixteen years, since His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed the Crown Prince of Dubai (February 1, 2008), the cultural sector in the emirate has made qualitative leaps and witnessed major booms, and His Highness has left his clear mark on the paths of cultural work in general. In addition, His Highness supported creative people and contributed effectively to transforming general trends in culture and creativity into approved government strategies.

Thus, the contributions of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, in the cultural field are richly diverse. Some of them are related to his personality as a creator and producer of culture and a supporter of its various sectors and fields, and some are related to his leadership role as Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of its Executive Council.

In all cases, these contributions were exceptional, making a difference in the position of culture in society, as well as in its general presence in daily life, in the context of economic and development contributions, as well as in the context of the process of building a new human being.

Here, “Fazza”, the title chosen and chosen by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, for himself, represents a path of creativity and direct cultural work, with its own determinants and starting points, as well as its achievements.

On the other hand, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in addition to holding the Secretariat of the Crown Prince, is keen to work with care and dedication on comprehensive development paths, including cultural work, institutionalizing it and enhancing its qualitative spaces, in addition to supporting and nurturing the creative economy and consolidating its presence.

In practice, His Highness’s achievements in the cultural field have gone in two directions: The first: direct personal contribution, which came through creative poetic achievement, support for Arabic song, reviving heritage, its arts and vocabulary, and emphasizing its special importance in strengthening identity and enriching the national culture component, and leadership in supporting the culture of image. And photography.

The second: the official contribution and leadership role, which came through leading efforts in the field of organizing the cultural sector, institutionalizing it, supporting creators, highlighting the Emirati creative personality, promoting the creative product, and enriching the cultural sector with inspiring initiatives, which revived the activity in it and transformed it into a social activity on the levels of production and reception.

Talking about the personal contribution and leadership role played by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is not complete without talking about the creative personality of His Highness, who had, and still has, a strong influence with regard to general trends related to culture.

In talking about this creative personality, unique determinants emerge, in whose worlds cultural heritage combines with family traditions and personal talent, as they are basic components and solid pillars.

Here we are talking about:

First: Cultural heritage: His Highness’s creative personality was enriched during its upbringing by Emirati culture, which expressed itself through poetry, both clearly and eloquently, and drew from the heritage and its rich vocabulary.

Second: Family traditions: His Highness grew up in a family that loved poetry, composed it, and mastered it. His father, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, was a poet who carried the banner of rhymes and mastered the meter of poetry since childhood. He mastered his grammar and eloquence. When he noticed the poetic talent of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid, he embraced it and cared for it.

Third: Personal talent: Personal talent was characterized by its innate nature. It was characterized by eloquence, strength of expression, accuracy of meaning, and sincerity of emotion. This talent was enriched by contact with the most important poetic experiences and acquaintance with the best texts of the poetic heritage. His Highness’s poetic work was characterized by mastery, specificity of style, and uniqueness of approach.

Accordingly, the creative personality of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, reflects the magnitude of the leadership role in the cultural field, and it is also the exceptional value of His Highness’s creative achievement, which enabled His Highness to create a prominent position for himself on the map of poetry across the world. level of the region, and that his poetic presence constitutes a distinguished state called excellence and uniqueness, which established His Highness and his poetic production as a model to be emulated, especially by the creative younger generation, who were influenced by His Highness’s talent, loved his poems, memorized them by heart, and were drawn and astonished by the contents of eloquence, the power of expressions, and the beauty of Image, and accuracy of meaning.

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum emerged in his special and distinguished cultural role, which constituted a strong lever for cultural activity in the Emirates.

This role began with creative leadership, as His Highness emerged as a poet of high caliber, with a unique voice, and formed the vanguard of the Nabataean poetry movement in the Arab world, and one of its most prominent leaders. A large audience of young poets followed his example, who represented a new voice that enriched the poetic scene and enriched it. The Gulf song, and contributed to consolidating its Arab presence.

On the other hand, His Highness opened a new horizon in the cultural scene, with his successive initiatives, which initially focused on poetry, as the founding creative vocabulary in Emirati society, and aimed to preserve its position and pioneering role in cultural life, as well as providing support and encouragement for poetry and poets.

The impact of these initiatives remains indelible, and the poetry movement in the region continues to be enriched by them and what they accomplished and achieved. Perhaps the poetry public does not forget to this day the “Dubai Forum for Popular Poetry,” the major poetry demonstration for which poets prepare the best of their poems and poems.

In this context, it is necessary to point out the “Hamdan Initiative for Literary Creativity,” which is based on printing and producing 100 readable and audio collections of poetry by male and female Gulf poets, in the tireless efforts of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council. To enrich the field of poetry with distinctive experiences.

This initiative has truly provided a great addition to the Emirati and Arab poetry library, enriching it with qualitative creative materials and experiences, and documenting an important aspect of the poetic heritage, in addition to supporting the publishing sector in the country.

The initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, have taken literature and poetry to the level of benefiting from the achievements of the era, so that it is presented with new innovative methods and tools, as His Highness directed the allocation of poetry programs outside the traditional framework by which it was known. In a way that is compatible with the changes of the current era, which was embodied in a creative way, in one of its contexts, in the “Al-Bayt” program, in cooperation between “Dubai Media” and the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage.

The creativity of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in poetry has provided exceptional opportunities for the leaders of Arabic song, especially the Gulf, to present new, innovative melodies that rely on words that are exceptional in their structure and meaning. Thus, the poetic achievement of His Highness turned into one of the strongest levers on which the Arabic song relied in the past decades, and he also played a central role in enhancing the presence of the Gulf song.

Since the emergence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as a poet under the name “Fazza”, and the spread of his poems over a wide geographical area of ​​​​the Arab world, the most famous singing stars in the Arab world have been keen to have their throats ring out with poems signed by His Highness, and to have them composed by the most famous composers.

His Highness’s poems were sung by the Arab artist Muhammad Abdo, the Caesar of the Arabic Song, Kazem Al Saher, Mehd Hamad, Khaled Abdul Rahman, Nabil Shuail, Hussein Al Jasmi, Aida Al Menhali, Asma Al Munawwar, Rashid Al Majed, Asala, Abbas Ibrahim, Aryam, Balqis, and Abdul Majeed Abdullah. These artists, who sang a large number of His Highness’s poems, are the best works in their artistic career. His Highness’s important contribution to enhancing the contents of Arabic song in general, and opening new paths for it, enriched Arab culture, and restored its connection to human life and its future.

Leadership vision

The leadership role of His Highness in the cultural sector did not stop at initiatives that took care of literature, poetry, and poets, but rather included heritage and its revival. The Hamdan bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage was a path to creating a broad, creative, effective framework in society that reconnected contemporary culture with the authentic cultural vocabulary of Emirati society, and included its heritage in the list. Human heritage, and placing it in the place it deserves.

On the other hand, the initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, focused on photography, not only because this art is part of His Highness’s creative personality, but also because the image is part of the global languages ​​and cultural vocabulary that reaches humans. Wherever he is, overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers. .

His Highness, with the joints and aspects of his creative and leadership career, has made many contributions, an essential part of which is embodied in the creative identity, which is expressed by the title “Fazza.” That is, direct creative contributions, represented by poetry and photography, while other great contributions come from His Highness’s official responsibilities, and these contributions are represented in the continuous support for culture, creativity and creative people, sponsoring Dubai’s strategy for the creative economy, launching creative and heritage areas and spaces, rehabilitating historical sites, and creating complexes and integrated destinations. For creative people from all over the world, in addition to entrepreneurs and investors in the field of creative industries, as an integral and important part of the economic diversification plans pursued by the emirate to establish the foundations of a future economy based on knowledge, innovation and creativity.

The career of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, is full of giving, leadership, excellence and achievement.

Thanks to the directives of His Highness, the culture sector in Dubai looks towards tomorrow with eyes anticipating the future, and achieves steady progress that ensures the expansion and enrichment of the forms of contribution of the creative economy to the emirate’s economy, thus embodying the best values ​​​​that he learned at the school of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Ministers and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, in thought and leadership.

In fact, the wise assignment by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed to assume the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Dubai (February 1, 2008) formed a pillar in consolidating the long-term development path in the cultural sector in Dubai.

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