Members of Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture (SCC), are meeting to day 13th., June to vote on the State Awards in the fields of literature, arts and human sciences. The voting session was secret under the rule of president Hosni Mubarak, but former culture minister Emad Abu-Ghazi in 2011 opened deliberations to the public in order to promote transparency. The awards ceremonies were aired in 2011, 2012, and 2013, 2014. Notable the voting session to excel in the Arts Award was chosen both Ezabi, Nasser Hassan Shaaban, spring key, beautiful Mahmood Abdulrahman, Fawzi Khadr, festive Ismail, Salah Ibrahim, Abdul Ghani Zaki, Kamal al-Din Festival, will also be voting on this Names again to choose only two of them, for the award. Voting has been reaired to journalists again. No results have been announced yet. 12:17 Minutes after the vote started the TV circle that was prepared to air the voting process to journalists in a separate room went off by orders from the minister of culutre, Abdel-Wahed El-Nabawy. The 32 Encouragement Awards are divided as follows: eight for the arts, eight for literature, eight in the social sciences, and eight for law and economic research. Of the seven Excellency Awards, two are for the arts, two for literature and three for the social sciences. Political analyst Ammar Ali Hassan and economy expert Ahmed El-Naggar were among the winners of the prize last year. The vote also includes 10 Appreciation Awards: three for the arts, three for literature and four for the social sciences. This award was granted for the first time in 1999. Novelists Khairy Shalaby, Gamal El-Ghitani, poet Mohammed Afifi Mattar, and critic Gaber Asfour are among past winners. The three Nile Awards are divided as follows: one for the arts, one for literature and one for the social sciences. The Nile Award was originally named the Mubarak Award, but was changed in the aftermath of 25 January 2011 revolution that ousted president Hosni Mubarak from power. Poet Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi, writers Bahaa Taher, Ibrahim Aslan and Waheed Hamed, and cinema director Youssef Chahine are the most prominent figures to date who have won the Nile Award. The State Awards were launched in 1958 and have only been cancelled once, in 1967, during the Six Days War between Egypt and Israel.
