24/04/2022
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Honourary Ceremony for the Winners of The Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Award on 30 May
The Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Award announced that the Honourary Ceremony for the winners in the Tenth Season of the Award will be held on 30 May, 2022 at Kanoo Tower in the Diplomatic Area. The Ceremony will include the distribution of financial rewards allocated by the Award to authors of distinguished scientific research papers and artistic works that received the highest levels of evaluation by the Award’s Judging Committees.

The Dignitary Khalid Mohamed Kanoo, the Chairman of the Award’s Board of Trustees, confirmed that the Honourary Ceremony for the winners in the Tenth Season comes within the framework of the Award’s organizers’ keenness to celebrate the great efforts made by researchers in presenting important scientific studies that serve science and culture, whether in Bahrain or the Arab countries, praising the distinctive scientific and creative capabilities demonstrated by the participants. The Dignitary Khalid Kanoo explained that the time has become appropriate to hold the Ceremony in this period after the dangers of the epidemic have been overcome, and that preparations are in place to launch the Eleventh Edition of the Award immediately after the end of the Honourary Ceremony.

The Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Award, in its Tenth Edition, allocated a financial prize worth 30 thousand dollars for the best research in the Field of Economies, which was won by the researcher Mohammed Ibrahim Shalabi. A financial prize worth 10 thousand dollars was also allocated in the field of Scientific Research, was won by Riyad Mahmoud Mohammed, as well as a financial prize worth 10 thousand dollars in the field of Fine Art was won by Ahmed Abdul Redha Saleh. This is in addition to financial prizes ranging from 5 to 7 thousand dollars for the winners in second and Third Places in the same fields.

The Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Award, established in 1998, comes within the framework of the interest of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Commercial Group in supporting projects of public service and effective contribution to religious, cultural and humanitarian projects, supporting the path of knowledge and encouraging thinkers and scientists from the people of Bahrain and Arab countries in the fields of Islamic studies, finance, economies and business, and the various fields of science and literature. The Award holds the name of the founder of the Commercial Group, Haji Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, in commemoration of his tribute, as he was known for his interest in knowledge and scientists and helping students of knowledge, in addition to his great contributions to humanitarian and charitable works that inure benefit for the society.