Prince Khaled Al-Faisal interacted with the song “I will not wire you” while Walaa Al-Jundi sang it at the ceremony of the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Award for Arabic Poetry. A circulating video documented the Prince’s interaction while listening to the song, who applauded quietly, expressing his admiration for the song.
And the video showed the artist, Walaa al-Jundi, as she sang: “Awadil, awadhil and envy, his wahla, his wahla orphan, and the one who is devoid of love is dreaming, and the one who is in love is dreaming, and the one who is in love is dreaming. And the range is renewed and does not age.”
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Governor of Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Arabic Poetry, had honored the winners of the Abdullah Al-Faisal Award for Arabic Poetry in its fourth season 2022, in the Jeddah Dome “Superdome”. During the ceremony, the poet Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain, winner of the award for the best poem, was honored. She sang regarding his poem “I will not wire you” performed by Walaa El-Gendy, who sang it during the coronation ceremony.
The sung poem “I will not wire you” on the YouTube platform has more than 3 million views, and it has won the thirteenth place in popular music content in Saudi Arabia on the same platform. In the Arab world, the poet and writer Abdullah Al-Faisal, may God have mercy on him.
On this occasion, the poet Abdul Aziz Al-Babtain, winner of the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Award for Arabic Poetry for the best sung poem, said that the importance of the award is that it is an international award held by Saudi Arabia with its international cultural weight, as well as the fact that the award is sponsored by the poet Prince Khaled Al-Faisal and bears the name of the writer Prince Abdul God Al-Faisal, may God have mercy on him, and this has great weight locally and internationally, in addition to what the award reflects in terms of cultural goals whose effects are reflected in the Arab and international literary and cultural scene.
Al-Babtain added that the sung poem branch motivates poets to highlight the aesthetics of the classical Arabic language in the song, and restores its cultural and musical status to everyone’s ears, and achieves the ultimate goal of strengthening the identity and importance of the Arabic language for the current and future generations.
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It is noteworthy that the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Prize for Arabic Poetry is a literary award of Saudi origin, and its destination is Arab and international. The award has achieved unparalleled success over the past years, with 47 participants in the first season, 90 in the second season, 139 in the third season, and 323 in the fourth season from 21 countries.
