Under the supervision of Dr. Mamoun Al-Shtaiwi, Yarmouk's representative to the Francophone Agency for universities in the Middle East, several students from the Department of Modern Languages/French at Yarmouk University participated in the Goncourt Award for Middle East Students 2020. The award ceremony, which was held remotely on the criticism of eight novels written in French during 2020, included participants from Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, Djibouti, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. The students were provided with the selected novels by the French Embassy in Amman during the first semester of 2020-2021, and they were asked to provide professional, critical readings of the works under discussion and to rank them. Eventually, Les impatientes by the Cameroonian writer Djali Amadou Amal was ranked first by the students of the Department of Modern Languages at the university.