04 May 2021 - 9:26
By Raynald C Rivera | The Peninsula
Doha: Twenty-five contestants have qualified for the prestigious Katara Prize for Quran Recitation which marks its fourth edition this year, the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced yesterday.
The competitors stood out from among thousands of participants which applied for the competition. This year’s edition of the annual event was distinguished for a huge number of participants which reached 2,004 hailing from 18 Arab and 44 non-Arab countries.
Leading the number of semi-finalists is Morocco with six contestants followed by Iraq, Egypt, Syria, the Philippines, Indonesia and Algeria. Completing the semi-finalists are contestants from Jordan, Pakistan, Tanzania, Libya, Turkey, Yemen, and Iran.
The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) has launched competitions in line with the activities being organised by different entities as part of ‘Doha, Capital of Culture in the Islamic World 2021’.
Huge response to Katara Quran memorisation contest
27 Apr 2021 - 9:22
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By Raynald C Rivera | The Peninsula
Doha: A total of 935 children are taking part in Katara’s “Juz’u Amma” competition for children organised this Ramadan, the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced yesterday.
The annual Holy Quran memorisation and recitation competition for children, open for those aged six to 13, comes within the activities of Katara during the holy month, registration of which was done electronically from the first to the 10th of Ramadan.
Participants are to be contacted by phone and Zoom for evaluation, said Katara.
Big cash prizes are in store for the top three winners including QR10,000, QR 8,000, and QR5,000 respectively, added Katara.
15 Mar 2021 - 10:29
By Arsalan Altaf | The Peninsula
‘Mayhoud and the Jinni’ is a story of a good, principled man wronged by an arbitrary decision; his struggles to get over it; and his gripping interactions with jinns and spirits.
It’s the latest novel by veteran Qatari journalist and writer Ahmed Abdel Malek, after his first ‘Ahdan Al-Manafy’ (The Embraces of Exiles) came out in 2005. The story is told in first-person by the titular protagonist, Mayhoud, who was also the protagonist in ‘Ahdan Al-Manafy’. Malek is also the former editor-in-chief of The Peninsula.
The novel opens with Mayhoud a diligent, hardworking employee one day in 2007 receiving an out-of-the-blue termination letter signed by a minister. “Only two lines.. They ended my career and destroyed my grand dreams of serving my homeland. Merely two lines cut the vein that connected me to Warda and reduced me to nothing.”
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