call for poem

Arbaeen World Award Call for Poems is held with the aim of identifying and introducing Arbaeen poets, valuable poems, supporting and encouraging poets of different countries and promoting the high Hosseini culture.

To participate in the Poems section of the Arbaeen World Award, you can submit your works with the theme of Arbaeen (generalities, education, history, personalities , morals, Quranic sciences, hadith, Islamic culture and civilization, Islamic art and architecture, contemporary Islamic studies, literature: including  odes, sonnets, couplets, masnavis, and Poems-related styles to the secretariat.

 More details are given below.

Regulations of the Poems Section:

  • Participation in the competition and submission of works is open to the public.
  •  Only poems will be judged and evaluated in this award, which were written for the first time in the last two years and the creator or poet completes the registration worksheet on the award website and sends it to the secretariat.
  • Poems should not be a translation of another poet’s work.
  • Do not include your name or any other identifying information on your poem. 
  • All poems are judged anonymously.
  • Poems are judged by professors and instructors of the university.

The Characteristics of the Submitted Works:

  • The weight and content of the poem should be related to Ashuraee and Arbaeen culture.
  • Simultaneous participation in other parts of the award is allowed on the condition of compliance with the relevant regulations.
  • Language area: language limitation is not considered and in addition to Arabic, English and Farsi, other languages ​​such as Spanish, French, German and Turkish will also be evaluated. 
  • The subject of submitted works must be related to the competition sections. The final determination of this matter will be the responsibility of the Arbaeen World Award judges.
  • Making the final decision on any point that is not provided for in the present regulations, as well as the interpretation of the ambiguities arising from its provisions, is within the jurisdiction of the competition secretariat, and the participants and judges deny themselves any rights in this regard.