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The competition, organized by the Department of Intellectual and Cultural Affairs of the holy shrine, came under the slogan (the beauty of at-Taf does not end), and aims to awaken creative poets to write about this exemplary figure of Ali al-Akbar (peace be upon him), in the presence of a number of members of the board of Directors of the Al-Abbas's (p) shrine, heads of its departments, religious and academic figures and participating poets.
The festival activities began with the recitation of verses from the Holy Quran, read by the reader of the Al-Abbas's (P) shrine Ammar al-Hilli, followed by the speech of the Al-Abbas's (P) holy shrine and the preparatory committee delivered by the head of the scientific complex of the Holy Quran at the holy shrine, Dr. Mushtaq al-Ali, in which he stressed that "more than fifty texts were received from different countries, from the Gulf, North Africa and the Levant, as well as the host country (Iraq), and the competition was intense, made the task of sorting the winners difficult for the judging committee, which was elected from the academic and cultural arenas".
The competition witnessed the recitation of the poems of the top ten winners in the competition, and the honoring of the judging committee of the competition and the winners by the member of the board of Directors of the Al-Abbas's(p) holy shrine; Dr. Abbas Rashid al-Dada al-Mousawi, the representative of the president of Karbala University; Mr. Salman al-Greyti and the representative of the Kadhemiyah Holy Shrine; Mr. Amer al-Anbari, in addition to the head of the Department of Intellectual and Cultural Affairs; Sayed Aqeel al-Yasiri, and the president of the Karbala literary Union; Mr. Salam al-Bannai, and the activities of the festival concluded by honoring the winners of the cultural competition for the birth anniversary of Imam Zayn al-Abideen (peace be upon him).
