Biba Klomp
06-12-2008, 09:22 AM
On 2 June 2008, the Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Lebanon, Ambassador Patrick Laurent, and Mrs. Gisèle Khoury-Kassir granted the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press to the winners of the 2008 edition:
Naela Khalil, a 30-year old Palestinian journalist, won the award in the Journalists' category for her article titled: "Palestinians pay the price of hatred - Political arrests: a settlement of accounts between "Fateh" and "Hamas"…", published on 14 March 2008 on the website AMIN (Arab Media Internet Network). The Journalists' category award is worth €15,000.
Marwan Harb, a 25-year old Lebanese student at Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut), won the award in the Young Researchers' category for his M.A. (DEA) thesis titled: "The Shehabism or the limits of a political modernisation experience in Lebanon", presented in 2007. The Young Researchers' award is worth €10,000.
The two candidates were judged by the Jury according to the criteria of relevance, originality, quality of treatment and respect of professional rules. Each year, the Samir Kassir Award is granted to a work of research and an article addressing the rule of law or freedom of the press.
The article of Naela Khalil and the thesis of Marwan Harb will be available on the website www.samirkassiraward.org
The two first editions of the award were open to 9 Mediterranean countries. In 2008, the Delegation of the European Commission extended the range of participation, the award is now open to nationals from 18 countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Palestinian Territories, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen).
93 files were submitted for the third edition of this award, of which 19 were selected in the Journalists' category and 5 in the Young Researcher's category. The candidates were Algerian, Bahraini, Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Moroccan, Palestinian, Saudi, Syrian and Yemeni nationals.
The jury was composed of 7 members representing European and Mediterranean media and universities: Hazem Saghieh, senior columnist at the pan-Arab Al-Hayat daily newspaper and editor of Al-Hayat’s weekly political supplement ‘Tayyarat’; Hani Shukrallah, executive director of the Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism and senior research consultant at the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies (Egypt); Delphine Minoui, journalist at the French daily newspaper Le Figaro; Alistair Lyon, special correspondent, Middle East, for Reuters News; Ghassan el-Ezzi, professor of political sciences at the Lebanese University; Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, professor of political sciences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France); Carole Habib Kassir, representative of the Samir Kassir Foundation.
Naela Khalil, a 30-year old Palestinian journalist, won the award in the Journalists' category for her article titled: "Palestinians pay the price of hatred - Political arrests: a settlement of accounts between "Fateh" and "Hamas"…", published on 14 March 2008 on the website AMIN (Arab Media Internet Network). The Journalists' category award is worth €15,000.
Marwan Harb, a 25-year old Lebanese student at Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut), won the award in the Young Researchers' category for his M.A. (DEA) thesis titled: "The Shehabism or the limits of a political modernisation experience in Lebanon", presented in 2007. The Young Researchers' award is worth €10,000.
The two candidates were judged by the Jury according to the criteria of relevance, originality, quality of treatment and respect of professional rules. Each year, the Samir Kassir Award is granted to a work of research and an article addressing the rule of law or freedom of the press.
The article of Naela Khalil and the thesis of Marwan Harb will be available on the website www.samirkassiraward.org
The two first editions of the award were open to 9 Mediterranean countries. In 2008, the Delegation of the European Commission extended the range of participation, the award is now open to nationals from 18 countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Palestinian Territories, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen).
93 files were submitted for the third edition of this award, of which 19 were selected in the Journalists' category and 5 in the Young Researcher's category. The candidates were Algerian, Bahraini, Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Moroccan, Palestinian, Saudi, Syrian and Yemeni nationals.
The jury was composed of 7 members representing European and Mediterranean media and universities: Hazem Saghieh, senior columnist at the pan-Arab Al-Hayat daily newspaper and editor of Al-Hayat’s weekly political supplement ‘Tayyarat’; Hani Shukrallah, executive director of the Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism and senior research consultant at the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies (Egypt); Delphine Minoui, journalist at the French daily newspaper Le Figaro; Alistair Lyon, special correspondent, Middle East, for Reuters News; Ghassan el-Ezzi, professor of political sciences at the Lebanese University; Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, professor of political sciences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France); Carole Habib Kassir, representative of the Samir Kassir Foundation.