Faisal, President of the Arab Thought Foundation, is scheduled to release Wednesday in Kuwait the second Arab Report on Cultural Development at the Foundation's 8th annual conference. The report contains a preface by Prince Khaled saying that the “dream of every Arab is a legitimate right to a nation contributing to human civilization.” “The realization of the dream should emerge from a project of enlightenment, culture and knowledge with its method science and in-depth objective reading,” the preface reads. The report focuses on the fundamental elements of cultural developments, and, according to Suleiman Abdul Monem, Secretary General of the Arab Thought Foundation, is the outcome of a year's work by a team formed of Saleh Al-Adhl, former president of King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology; Muhammad Salmawi, Secretary General of the Arabs Writers Union; Lebanese writer Al-Eais Sehab; Ziyad Abdullah Al-Drais, the Kingdom's Ambassador to UNESCO; Muhammad Al-Remahi, Editor-in-Chief of Kuwaiti On Line; Abdullah Al-Najar, President of the Arab Foundation for Science and Technology; Iraqi playwright Jawad Al-Assdi, and Syrian critic Ali Ugla Ersan. The Arab Report on Cultural Development, according to the foundation, aims to provide decision and policy-makers in the cultural field with data, statistics and insights through a yearly report “collecting and analyzing the components of the economy of knowledge” and “shedding light on the actual cultural development in the Arab world as on cultural production tools in areas such as the media, artistic and literature creativity, and book publication flow, education, scientific research, and information technology.” This year's Arab Thought Foundation conference, held under the patronage of Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jabr Al-Sabah, will see Prince Khaled honor the winners of the 2009 Arab Creativity Awards for science, literature, economy, sociology, arts, media and technology. The winners for each category, who are awarded $50,000, have been named as Al-Eais Al-Zahrouni in science, Zahra Al-Mansouri in literature, Riyadh Salama and the Bank of Lebanon in economy, Balain Village in Palestine in sociology, Salama Ahmad Salma in journalism, and Saqya Abdul Monem Al
