The University of Jordan (UJ) faculty member and
poet Professor Maha Al-Atoum won the Anwar Salman Award for Creativity 2021 in
the Field of Arabic Poetry jointly with Omani poet Hussein Al-Matrooshi.
Maha Al-Atoum, professor of Literature and
Modern Criticism in the Division of Arabic Language at the University's
Language Center, is an accomplished poet. She has six poetry collections and
winner of the State Appreciation Award in Poetry Literature 2017 and the
Creative Sabbatical Award 2017.
It is noteworthy that this year's jury included
poet Shawki Bazi, former General Secretary of Lebanese National Commission for
UNESCO Professor Zahida Darwish Jabbour, Professor Mahmoud Shureh, and Lebanese
critic and writer Suleiman Bakhti.
Anwar Salman Cultural Foundation is a non-profit
organization established on the second anniversary of the Lebanese poet Anwar
Salman’s death who passed away in 2016. The foundation is concerned with
honoring creativity in Arabic literature and poetry.