Virtual Seminar with Haydar Qasim, Winner of the 2020 Young Author Award
Date April, 27 2020
Location Live Digital Seminar on WebEx
Sheikh Zayed Book Award organized an online literary discussion in collaboration with Al Multaqa Literary Salon via Webex platform with Hayder Qasim, SZBA 2020 recipient of the Young Author Award. The virtual session allowed the winner to discuss his winning book ilm Al Kalam Al Islami fi Derasat al Mustashrikeen Al Alman (Islamic Theology in the Studies of German Orientalists) published by Al Rawafed Culture Publishers (Beirut) and Ibn al-Nadim Publishing and Distribution (Algeria) in 2019.
The session was hosted by Asma Siddiq Al Mutawaa, Founder and Chair of Abu Dhabi's Al Multaqa Literary Salon and moderated by Dr. Azza Jalal Hashem, a political science and Islamic heritage specialist.
Speakers
Asma Seddiq AlMutawaa
Founder and President of Al Multaqa Literary Salon.
Dr. Azza Hashem
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Institute of Arab Research and Studies (IARS)
Haydar Qasim
Hayder Qasim is an Iraqi author and academic who teaches in the Department of History at the University of Baghdad. He holds a PhD in Islamic History, Thought and Orientalism from the University of Baghdad and is Associate Chief Researcher at the Bayt Al-Hikma Foundation. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Historical Studies. His publications include several books on Islamic history, as well as editing and contributing to books and anthologies. He has had research papers and studies published in a number of Iraqi and Arab scientific journals.