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"Journalists" category
Naela KHALIL
Palestinian Naela Khalil, 30, was awarded the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press - Journalists’ Category for her article “Palestinians pay the price of hatred. Political arrests: A settlement of accounts between Fatah and Hamas”, published in Arabic on March 14, 2008, on the Internet website AMIN (Arab Media Internet Network).
Naela Khalil is a reporter for the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Ayyam. She was a reporter for the UN humanitarian news and analysis agency IRIN (2005-2006), the UAE magazine Al Maraa el-Muslema (2003), the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur (2002-2003), and the An-Najah Office for Media and Journalism (2001-2002).
She has a BA in Journalism from the An-Najah National University (2001), in Nablus. She earned a diploma in international print journalism at the Thomson Foundation in Cardiff, UK, which granted her the “Journalist of the Year 2005 Award” (Don Rowlands Award). She took courses in journalism writing (Al-Ahram Regional Institute for Media and Journalism - Egypt, 2004), theatre criticism and documentation (Amman Theatre Nights / Jordanian Ministry of Culture, Amman, 2004), gender writing (Women Affairs’ Center, Nablus, and Women Affairs’ Technical Committee, Ramallah).
She is the second prize winner of the ICRC competition on international humanitarian law for Arab countries (2008), winner of the Defense for Children International-Palestine section Prize for best feature about children in Palestine (2007), winner of the Al-Qattan Foundation Prize for the best feature, for journalists under 35 years in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2005).
Naela Khalil was born on October 18, 1977, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Balata (Nablus). She resides in Ramallah, the West Bank.
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"Young researchers " category
Marwan HARB
Lebanese Marwan Harb, 25, was awarded the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press - Young Researchers’ Category for his M.A. thesis in political science: “The Shehabism or the limits of an experience in political modernisation in Lebanon”, prepared under the supervision of Professor Georges Corm and presented in November 2007 at Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut.
He studied political science (2001-2005), literature and French language (2000-2004), and philosophy (2005-2006) at the state Lebanese University before earning an M.A. in political science from Université Saint-Joseph.
He is the assistant director of the consultancy office of the non-governmental organization New Opinion in Lebanon. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Lebanese University academic review “A Z, la politique.”
Marwan Harb was born on March 8, 1983, in Tannurine, Lebanon.
Abstract of the thesis titled “Le Chehabisme ou les limites d’une expérience de modernisation politique au Liban”, submitted in November 2007 at Université Saint Joseph (USJ), Beirut, for an M.A. (Master 2) in Political Sciences.
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