Date: 4 May 2011
Blog: Traveller Within
“We” being “Arab Youth”. You know, for the revolutions and stuff.
(yes, much less exciting when you know it. (But it’s still better than the Time Magazine Person of the Year being the ubiquitous “You”, right?
The award is one of several TAKREEM Arab Achievement Awards, which were bestowed in Doha earlier this week.
Founded by TV host Ricardo Karam, the idea behind “Takreem” is to honour innovators in the Arab world in a number of fields, including a few classics – advancement of peace, education, scientific and technological achievement, woman of the year – as well as few innovative ones: “outstanding cultural leadership”, “young entrepreneur”, and “exceptional international contribution to Arab society” (which is an exceptionally long title, for that matter).
The idea is solid: incentives work, and there is indeed a large number of people doing wonderful work in the Arab World that deserves to be recognized..
مبادرة "تكريم" للإنجازات العربيّة 