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12/8/25, 11:06 AM Winners of Hamdan–ALECSO Award for Distinguished Educational Research announced | Emirates News Agency
Anxiety, Science Anxiety, and Enrollment in the Scientific

Track in Secondary Education,” was authored by Prof. Dr.

Ahmed Mohamed Hamed Majriya and Prof. Dr. Ahmed

Abdulrahman Al Emadi.

The second winning study, authored by Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Magda El-Sayed Ali Bathish Al-Kushki, is titled “The

Inflation of Illusory Competence as a Mediating Variable in

the Relationship Between Cognitive Reliance on

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Distortion of

Intellectual Identity Among Graduate Students.” The

winning research papers demonstrated strong scientific

rigor, clear relevance to contemporary educational issues,

and a notable capacity to contribute to the development of

educational policies and the enhancement of learning

practices across Arab countries.

The 2025 Hamdan–ALECSO Award for Digital Innovations

in Education also witnessed strong regional participation,

with 77 digital innovations from 11 Arab countries,

reflecting the diversity of digital initiatives and the growing

adoption of advanced technologies in educational

development.

Algeria topped the submissions with 21 innovations,

followed by the United Arab Emirates with 16, Palestine

with 10, Saudi Arabia with 7, Iraq with 6, and Jordan with

5. Kuwait and Morocco each submitted 4 innovations, in

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