Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation

The late poet Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais established an independent permanent award bearing his name on December 17, 1987. The purpose of the award is to honor, encourage and support outstanding Arab authors, thinkers and scientists, and to recognize their pivotal role in the cultural development of the Arab nation.

The UAE Writers Association recognized the newly established award and supervised the appointment of its first General Secretariat. However, in 1992 the Award developed into an independent cultural foundation with the same name, officially becoming the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation by virtue of Emiri Decree No. 4 dated March 21, 1994 issued by the late H. H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the then Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai.