[1][2] The show is a Nabati vernacular poetry competition in which the participants compose and recite poems.
[3] The show is funded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage and is inspired by a pre-Islamic poetry festival at Souk Okaz.
A panel of judges evaluate the style and language of the poems and the quality of the recitation; contestants also receive votes from the audience, and are eliminated from the competition until five finalists remain.
[4] In 2010, journalist and editor Hissa Hilal was the show's first female finalist, finishing third in the finals.
Her poems strongly criticized "ad hoc fatwas", religious extremism and conservative clerics.