The ceremony was attended by a large number of public and cultural figures, including Huda Naguib Mahfouz, the daughter of the Egyptian novelist; the family of renowned photographer Mohamed Hegazy; CEO of Dar Al-Shorouk Foundation Ibrahim Al-Moallem; researcher and founder of El-Da7ee7 channel on YouTube, Ahmed El Ghandour; and the CEO of the Swedish company for audio books Storytel in Egypt.