I write to inform you that the Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance (HAMSA) has re-launched the "Dream Deferred" Essay Contest on Civil Rights in the Middle East. Anyone under the age of 26 can enter, and finalists can win up to $2,000 in cash prizes!
The contest (see http://hamsaweb.org/essay) challenges young Americans and young Middle Easterners to express constructive ideas for individual rights in the world's least-free region.
Judges for the essay contest include Azar Nafisi (author of the best-seller Reading Lolita in Tehran), Shafeeq Ghabra (founding President of American University in Kuwait) and Gloria Steinem (founder of Ms. Magazine), as well as noted Middle Eastern bloggers Ammar Abdulhamid of Syria and Mahmoud Al-Yousif from Bahrain.
We hope to awaken American and Middle Eastern youth to the reform efforts of brave individuals in the region. Ultimately, we aim to inspire young people to support these initiatives and to contribute their own ideas for civil rights programs.
The deadline for the contest is January 31, 2007 and we hope you consider submitting an essay. If you have any questions please send an email to dream@hamsaweb.com.
Thank you,
Emmanuel Benhamou
Essay Contest Coordinator
hey, these guys wrote to me too.. who are they? and how did they get my e-mail?!
ReplyDeleteanyway i'm too old for them.
interestingly.. run by a bunch of greeks and latino italians.
la frigatura!