The death of Muhammad Khalaf Al Mazrouei in a traffic accident

This morning, the Culture and Heritage Advisor to the Court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, died in a serious traffic accident in Abu Dhabi.

The funeral prayer will be held after the Maghrib prayer at the Sultan Mosque in Al Farah in Madinat Zayed.

The court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the late Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, mourned the death of the late Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, God Almighty, and offered his sincere condolences and sincere condolences to all his family, relatives, and those close to him, asking God Almighty to cover him with His vast mercy and satisfaction and dwell him in His spacious Paradise.

The Emirates Writers and Authors Union also issued a statement in which it mourned the deceased of the nation, who was forgiven, God Almighty willing, the late Muhammad Khalaf Al Mazrouei, in which he expressed his grief at the news of the death of a righteous son of the state and mentioned his virtues and that he was one of the loyal ones who left their mark everywhere, pointing to the necessity of taking a lesson from the event. Painful is a way to give and continue giving, work and effort.

Al Mazrouei was born in Madinat Zayed in the Western Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, where from a young age he was interested in the natural environment, especially falconry, and Arabic literature in its written and oral forms. After completing his government education, he continued his studies in the United States, after which he graduated with a master’s degree in administration from Oregon State. The deceased served as Director General of the Abu Dhabi Authority. For culture and heritage, he also previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Abu Dhabi Media Company, and he also had efforts in preserving heritage and paying attention to culture.

Launching the International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition in 2003 was one of the first challenges that the deceased chose for himself, as the exhibition transformed within a short period from a local event into a first-class economic, tourism and folkloric festival with regional and global dimensions.

The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage also launched two of the most successful television programs in the Arab world, “Poet of a Million” for Nabataean/popular poetry and “Prince of Poets” for classical poetry, which have become two Arab cultural phenomena that attract tens of millions of viewers.

Within less than two years of the Authority’s existence, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the New York-Abu Dhabi Film Academy, the Melodies from the East Festival, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, and the “Kalima” project for translation into Arabic were launched, in addition to creating a qualitative shift in the organization of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, the Abu Dhabi Classical Music Project, and the “Mazayna Al Dhafra” Festival. “And the Liwa Dates Festival, and the magazine “Beaches” in Arabic and English, and the establishment of the Academy of Poetry and the House of Arab Oud, in addition to the reopening of the Pre-Islamic Castle. After restoring it and turning it into a cultural beacon, and enhancing archaeological excavation projects, restoring historical buildings, and a project to collect written and oral Emirati culture.