1989年,沙特阿拉伯裔的叙利亚作家阿卜杜·拉赫曼·穆尼夫获得苏勒陶尼·本·阿里·阿维斯文化奖中的文学奖。1998年2月,首届阿拉伯作家大会在埃及召开,来自世界各地的作家、批评家,以及几乎所有阿拉伯文坛的顶级作家都出席了本次会议。在这次会议上,阿卜杜·拉赫曼·穆尼夫获得首次颁发的开罗创作奖。他的获奖,在当时的阿拉伯文坛引起了很大争议:这是一位被沙特官方剥夺了国籍的作 In 1989, Abdul Rahman Munif, a Syrian Arab writer from Saudi Arabia, won a literary prize in the Sultan Taurang bin Ali Avis Culture Prize. In February 1998, the first Arab writers’ conference was held in Egypt. Writers, critics from all over the world and top writers from almost all Arab countries attended the conference. At this meeting, Abdul Rahman Munif was given the first ever Cairo Prize for creation. His award, which was controversial at the time in the Arab literature, was an operation deprived of his nationality by the Saudi authorities