10 June 2008

PALESTINIAN, LEBANESE WIN SAMIR KASSIR AWARDS


A Palestinian journalist who tackled the fallout between Fatah and Hamas and a Lebanese student who wrote about the difficult path of modernisation in his country are this year's winners of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press.

Naela Khalil of Palestine won the 15,000 Euro (US$23,200) Journalist award. Her article "Palestinians pay the price of hatred", published in March on the Arab Media Internet Network website, looks at how the conflict between Fatah and Hamas helped to legitimise the use of political detentions.

Marwan Harb, a student at St. Joseph University in Beirut, won the 10,000 Euro (US$15,500) Young Researcher award for his thesis, "The Shehabism or the limits of a political modernisation experience in Lebanon", presented in 2007.

The annual Kassir awards, created to honour a Lebanese-born Palestinian journalist who was killed by a car bomb in Beirut three years ago, are funded by the European Commission delegation to Lebanon and are granted for work dealing with the rule of law or freedom of the press. This year the award was open to nationals from 18 countries.

Read Khalil's article and Harb's thesis at: http://www.prixsamirkassir.org

(10 June 2008)



Stay on top of free expression news.

Sign up to receive the weekly IFEX Communiqué.


Also from the Communiqué, 10 June 2008

UZBEKISTAN: RIGHTS ACTIVIST FREED 10 June 2008 THE GAMBIA: AUTHORITIES SHOULD ABIDE BY RULING AND FREE JOURNALIST, SAY IFEX MEMBERS 10 June 2008 YEMEN: OUTSPOKEN JOURNALIST GETS SIX-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE 10 June 2008 VENEZUELA: NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE GUNNED DOWN 10 June 2008 AFGHANISTAN: BBC REPORTER FOUND DEAD 10 June 2008 SOMALIA: NUSOJ LEADER ASSASSINATED 10 June 2008 INTERNATIONAL: GOVERNMENTS FOMENTING DANISH CARTOON CRISIS 10 June 2008
 
The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) is a global network of 95 organisations working to defend and promote the right to free expression.
Permission is granted for material on this website to be reproduced or republished in whole or in part provided the source member and/or IFEX is cited with a link to the original item.