IWA Annual Poetry Contest Winners 2005-2009


2005

Adult Category Winner
First Place: Corey Habbas for Olives Under Stones

Youth Category Winner
First Place: Kloude for The Boy Warrior
 
2006

Adult Category Non-IWA Member Winners
First Place: Juli Herman for More than a Prophet
and
First Place: Sister L. Bayaa for Sadaqa ar Rasool

IWA Member Category Winner
First Place: Karen English for Muhammad

Youth Category Winner
First Place: Mohamed Ali for Beginning to End

Child Category Winner
First Winner: Sabahat Fatima for I Love Mohammed

Many thanks to the judges for the 2006 Poetry Contest:

Rukhsana Khan, author
Samantha Sanchez, poet
Dasham Brookins, MuslimPoet.com

2007

Adult Category Winner
First Place: Yahia Samir Lababidi  for Desert Revisited

IWA Member Category Winner
First Place: Julinar Diab for Unequal

Youth Category Winners:
First Place: Raneen Hijazi  for My Birthday
and
First Place: Nabeela Dana for Snow

2008


Adult Category Winner:
First Place: Sara Younis for My Iman Lies Within Me

IWA Member Category Winner:
First Place: Camilla Sayf for A Haiku

Youth Category Winner:
First Place: Ayesha Ni'mat Fulani for What is Iman?

Judging for the 2008 IWA Poetry Contest was done by a public vote,
allowing public viewing of all entries and holding an online voting poll.

2009


Adult Category Winner
Ertan Karpazli for Earthquake

Youth Category Winner
Saara Khalid for The Pen and Sword

IWA Member Category Winner
Marwa Elnaggar for The Key

Many thanks to the judges of the 2009 Poetry Contest:
Adult Judge: Brother Dash - Dasham Brookins, MuslimPoet.com
IWA Member Judge: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Youth Category Judge: Karen English, Children's Author