The National Archives of the United Arab Emirates launched on its website a special page for the "Young Historian Award", which it sponsors in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, and is directed to school students from the sixth to the twelfth stage.

The National Archives launches a web page for the Young Historian Prize 2017



The National Archives of the United Arab Emirates launched on its website a special page for the "Young Historian Award", which it sponsors in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, and is directed to school students from the sixth to the twelfth stage. It aims to enhance belonging, loyalty and national identity, encourage research and study in the history of the Emirates, and also looks forward to making students partners in protecting the UAE's heritage and making it available for generations   Awarding the prize to the winners of its competition in the following categories: oral history, geographical history, economic history, and social history.

The electronic page dedicated by the National Archives for the Young Historian Award on its website included the objectives of the award and its rewards, and defined the targeted educational stage. In the guide for the Young Historian Award, the page presented the goals and topics of the award, which include the study of genealogies, tribes, personalities, oral narrations, poetry, folklore, proverbs, memories, correspondence, and photographs. And ancient collectibles, professions, handicrafts, markets, historical and archaeological sites, traditional architecture, marine life, pearl diving, fishing, folk medicine, research on the centenary of Sheikh Zayed (1918-2018), and about the martyrs of the homeland and what relates to them in social circles, and lessons and lessons in Moral education, while highlighting Emirati personalities known for their wisdom.

The guide also included some details about the categories of the award, documenting the steps for implementing the award program, implementation mechanisms, conditions for accepting written works and oral history interviews. The guide also paid attention to the award program from the date of its launch on November 17, 2016, the evaluation of the participating researches in the last two weeks of next April, and the closing ceremony and honoring the winners in mid-May 2017.

The guide also contained an acknowledgment form that the participating work was not copied or stolen and that it was presented for the first time in the competition for this award. The acknowledgment includes the names of the participating students, the name of the supervisor and the school, in addition to a request for participation for each of the categories participating in the new session of the Young Historian Award 2016- 2017.

It is worth noting that the National Archives urges dear students to seriously participate in the Young Historian Award. To be partners in documenting the memory of the nation in the valuable books and references that will be issued by the National Archives, including the winning research papers similar to the results of previous editions of books that included valuable peer-reviewed research on the UAE and the personality of the founding leader, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, most notably: Book: (Zayed). and Development), the book: (Zayed and the Environment), the book: (Zayed and Education), the book: (Zayed and the Woman) and the book (Emirati Islands and the Usurped Emirati Right... from a Historical Perspective), noting that the date for submitting the participating student works is at the end of March 2017.