Literature category:
- Alawiya Sobh for "Ifrah Ya Qalbi" (Lebanon);
- Reem Bassiouney for "Al-Qata'i: Thoulatheyat Ibn Tulun" (Egypt);
- Ali Ja'far al-Allaq for "Ila Ayn Ayyathouha al-Kaseedah" (Iraq).
Young Author Category:
- "Fawka Jisr Al Joumhoureyah (On the Bridge of the Republic) by Iraqi writer Shahd Al-Rawi
- "Al Wahl wa Al Noujoom" (Dirt and Stars) by Egyptian writer Ahmed Lotfi
- "Nehayat Al Sahra'a" (The End of the Desert) by Algerian writer Said Khatibi.
Literary and artistic criticism category:
- "Mara'i an-Nisaa': Dirasat fi Kitabat al-That an-Nisaa'iya al-Aarabiya" (Women's point of view: Studies on the personal writings of Arab women) by Tunisian author Dr. Jalila Al Tritar
- "Suwar al-Wujood fi al-Cinema wa-al-Falsafa" (Images of Existence in Cinema and Philosophy) by Moroccan writer Mohamed Nouraldin Affaya
- "Al-Mu'allafat al-Musiqiya al-Aarabiya al-Rahina: Bayn al-Maqamiya wa-al-Tonaliya" (Compositions of Contemporary Arabic Music: Between Maqamat and Tonality) by Tunisian writer Dr. Fakher Hakima.
Translation category:
- "Sarraq al-Kalimat: Bahth fi al-Intihal wa-Eilm at-Tahleel al-Nafsani wal-Fikr" (Thieves of Words: An Essay on Plagiarism, Psychoanalysis and Thought) by French writer and psychoanalyst Michel Schneider, translated from French into Arabic by Tunisian translator Abdelaziz Chebilet
- "Al-Imbratoriya al-Khatabiya: Sinaat al-Khutaba wal-Hajaj" (The Rhetorical Empire: Rhetoric and Argumentation), written by the Belgian philosopher and theoretician Chaim Perelman, translated from French into Arabic by the Moroccan translator Dr. Lhoussine Banouhachim's
- "Al-Ibara wa-al-Mi'na: Dirasat fi Nathariyat al-A'amal al-Lughawiya" (Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts) by the American philosopher and linguist John R. Searle, translated from English into Arabic by the Tunisian translator Chokri Al Saadi
Arabic culture in another language Category:
- "From the other side of the crusades: Islam between crusaders and Mongols" by French historian Gabriel Martinez Gros
- "The invention of the cadi. The Justice of Muslims, Jews and Christians in the First Centuries of Islam" by French historian Mathieu Tillier
- "The Rise of the Arabic Book" by the German author and academic Beatrice Gründler
- "The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt" by Egyptian author Omnia El Shakry
- "The ancient Murcian Moors: Expulsion, return and permanence (1609-1634)" by Spanish writer José Pascual Martínez.
Publishing and technology category
- Sinbad/Actes Sud (France)
- ElAin Publishing (Egypt)
- Institute of Arab Manuscripts (Egypt)
The announcement of the 2023 winners in April will be followed by the award ceremony in May at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The prize is endowed with 750,000 UAE dirhams for each winner.