The poet, Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais, established a permanent award bearing his name on December 17, 1987, with the aim of honouring, encouraging and supporting Arab scholars, litterateurs and intellectuals.
The UAE Writers Association recognised the newly born Award and supervised the appointment of its first General Secretariat. But, in 1992 the Award developed into an autonomous cultural foundation under the name Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Foundation and became an official foundation bearing the same name by the virtue of Emiri Decree No. 4 dated March 21, 1994 issued by H. H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai.
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