Great Arab Minds Award

The Great Arab Minds initiative is a quest to rekindle the passion of such great minds for achieving leadership in scientific and cultural fields and pushing knowledge-based development forward. It draws inspiration from Arab history to re-establish a sustainable modern-day model of the Arab world’s “Golden Age”,which was the height of the region’s cultural, economic, and scientific advancement.

The vision of the Great Arab Minds initiative is to revive this civilizational drive by empowering innovators and scholars to enrich their legacy and reshape the future through making exceptional contributions.

Brilliant Arab minds continue make to advancements and discoveries around the world, withup-and-coming great minds often seeking opportunities to incubate their work outside of the Arab region. Therefore, the initiative serves as a knowledge and intellectual powerhouse that embodies the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to usher in a ‘brain regain’ in the Arab world and retain such treasures, by recognising them and empowering them to become role models for Arab talent to come.

The Mohammad Bin Rashid Award is a symbol of appreciation of the highest regard, honoring Arabs, whose lifelong work has contributed to shaping a better future for humanity. Recipients of the award are bestowed with the global recognition and honor that comes with this prestigious Award, thereby granting limitless opportunities to the recipient of the Award as well as having an imperishable impact. Each year, the Award will go to six individuals across six categories. The Award will bear the name of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a name known for a spectrum of distinctive achievements in the Arab world. Valued at AED1 million, the Award will be used to fund research and projects. The Award’s design was conceptualized by a group of Arab designers, to epitomize through their creativity its value as a symbol honoring Arab scientists, thinkers, and great minds, who helped shape civilization.