Sons of Zayid and...literature

""This prize is yet another indication of the corruption of Arab cultural life and the extent to which Arab oil money insists on dominating all aspects of life," said As'ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese politics professor at California State University in the United States.  "This award has been criticised by many Arab writers and yet it continues with Arab oil money to award prestige to the UAE and its ruling families," he said."