Latest in Tag: award Highlight
Latest in Tag: award

3rd Rashid Bin Hamad Al Sharqi Award opens registrations
The award comes on the initiative of Chairperson of the UAEâs Fujairah Culture and Media Authority, Rashid bin Hamad Al-Sharqi. It is described as one of the new paths of creativity in the Arab world. The deadline for registration is December 2021.

Egyptian NGO for children with disabilities receives JICA Award
The newly established JICA Egypt Office Chief Representative Award aims to give commendations to development partners who are considered to be an asset for JICAâs activities in Egypt.

Egypt’s Al Mahsama Water Reclamation Plant wins ENR best water project award
The Egyptian government has long planned to settle more people and develop farmland in the sparsely populated and arid Sinai Peninsula. As part of that plan, the government and its Engineering Authority for the Egyptian Armed Forces built one of the worldâs largest water-reclamation plants on the eastern edge of the Suez Canal. The plant, which was completed in just one year, aims to help the government address the growing threat of water scarcity.

Oscars announce diversity criteria following long-term demands of greater equality
Starting from 2024, all films hoping to qualify for Best Picture Award must meet new diversity requirements

Heikal Foundation celebrates 3rd annual award ceremony
Heikalâs literary work to be displayed in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Tim Roth to receive honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award
The Award Ceremony will be held on 20 August. He is also scheduled to hold a masterclass on the same day.

Beltone Financial selected for Global Investor Groupâs Best Asset Manager in Egypt 2018 award
Company manages seven funds, out of which 6 listed as best performing funds in last 12 months

Marwan El-Shorbagy, Raneem El-Welily close in on new squash award
Egyptians squash legends Marwan El-Shorbagy and Raneem El-Welily are one step closer to achieving another world record by qualifying for a squash global champoinship. El-Welily qualified on Sunday for the Cleveland Squash Classic after she beat her English opponent Victoria Lust with three points to Lustâs one. As for El-Shorbagy, he also qualified on Sunday …

Banque Misr arranges loans worth EGP 55.1bn in 2016
The bank won the âBest Africa Project Finance Houseâ award for 2016 from EMEA Finance

Shawkan wins annual John Aubuchon Press Freedom AwardÂ
The photojournalist has been held in pre-trial detention for over 1,000 days

Egyptian wins award for best Continuity and Resilience project in Middle East
The project is a web portal for providing specialised content in the area of business continuity

Egypt wins CYFI Country Award
The award was granted to the Egyptian Banking Institution for efforts in financial literacy and inclusion

Nile Project: Using culture to transform conflict
Through music production, educational workshops and activities promoting innovation, the project aims to contribute to finding solutions to the conflict over water resources

Italian animator wins âThe Golden Pyramidâ at Cairo International Film Festival
Massi, who has won over 200 awards in major festivals in Italy and internationally, draws everything by hand instead of using computers

Egyptian activist nominated for European Parliament Award
Members of European parliament nominate Alaa Abdel Fattah for award honouring his efforts in human rights achievements

Photojournalist captures life in Upper Egypt’s quarries
More than 20,000 unregistered workers risk life and limb to mine the mountain, often starting work as young as 9 years old

Egyptian receives the Righteous Among the Nations award
An Egyptian is named among the Righteous at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum for the first time.

Egyptian news photographer wins award
The prestigious LeadAward is awarded to German print and online media in a variety of categories and Abd El Ghanyâs photograph appeared in the magazine Stern.
Prince Claus Fund Award goes to Ahmed Fouad Negm
Egyptian poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm is given the Principal Prince Claus Award for fighting for the people through art

‘Shafts of light’ wins Pulitzer prize
A photo taken in a sniper’s nest in Syria wins the Pulitzer prize, one of the biggest honours in the US world of news

Fawry receives MasterCard âBest acceptance initiativeâ award for MENA
MasterCard praises Fawry for âproducing a non-traditional payment solution tailored to the marketâ

Luxor hosts second Luxor African Film Festival
The festivalâs mission is to support and encourage African film productions and partnerships between the countries of the continent

Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile wins American publisher award
Ancient Nubia was named best book in the Archaeology and Anthropology category

Youssef Idrisâ legacy survives him in award
Idris is Egyptâs, and the Arab worldâs most prolific short story writer and playwright

Miss Arab world: finding the âperfectâ girl amidst referendum mess
The ceremony was attended by such patrons of Egyptian beauty as Fifi Abdu, Esam Karika and a strange sea creature whom we later identified as actress Ghada Ibrahim

Bounty on anti-Islam film-maker disowned by Pakistani authorities
Pakistan detaches itself from bounty announced by minister, as president is scheduled to speak on religious harmony in UN general assembly

Luxor to host new film festival
Luxor to host the first Egyptian and European Film Festival