Watheqat Watan Foundation honors the winners of the "My Story" award at the Al-Assad Library in Damascus

Damascus-Sana

The “Document of the Nation” Foundation honored the winners of the “My Story” award competition for the best short realistic story during a ceremony held this evening at the Al-Assad Library in Damascus.

Twelve stories won across four age groups, the first category under the age of twenty years, in which she won the gold "Haneen Al-Qubba", the silver "Majd Al-Din Eid" and the bronze "Dana Shaweesh".

And the second category from twenty to thirty years won the gold in which “Naglaa Saeed” and the silver “Rahma Zaamout” and the bronze “Gram Al-Ali”.

While he won the gold for the third category from the age of 30 to 50 years, “Firas Al-Qadi”, the silver “Tamer Dabbas” and the bronze “Wassim Mustafa”, while he won the gold in the fourth category over the fifty years “Muhammad Shahoud” and the silver “Randa Al-Qasim” and the bronze “Martin Tamas” ”

And the prize "My Story" is 3 awards distributed in 4 age groups "golden and its reward is 300 thousand Syrian pounds and silver 200 thousand and bronze 100 thousand" as the number of stories that reached the institution 475 from all provinces.

Political and media advisor at the Presidency of the Republic, Dr. Buthaina Shaaban, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Watanat Watan Foundation, stated in her speech that about 500 interviews were conducted with participants from different governorates to see their stories that will be preserved and documented in the institution, indicating that the competition constitutes the first work of the institution and participants participate in a fee The most beautiful map of Syria that our children and grandchildren will be proud of in the future.

Shaaban explained that these stories will be translated into living languages ​​"for the world to read through our true documentation of it and not through the distorted history that our enemies write", stressing the importance of the institution's work in documenting contemporary history and Orientalizing the future of development in Syria.

In turn, Director of Projects in “Watan Document” Musa El Khoury stated that the Foundation relies on field study and direct observations to be preserved, processed and converted into documents, indicating that the Foundation works to preserve the Syrians ’memory and vision and establishes a center for research and strategic studies reviewing the Foundation’s projects and activities aimed at spreading awareness in society And contribute to the development of knowledge capabilities by training researchers and volunteers and integrating them into its projects.

Dr. Nermin Al-Nafrah, a researcher at the Foundation, pointed out that the jury of the “My Story” competition consists of writer Nabil Saleh, writer and media worker Nahla Al-Sousou and a member of the Arab Writers Union Hassan Hamid, reviewing the terms of the competition, most notably that the participant be a resident of Syrian citizens or expatriates starting from the age of ten years and not The story exceeds a thousand words and addresses human values ​​that are subject to real events, commitment to clarity, smoothness of expression and principles of oral composition, and avoiding stories based on fiction, deduction, published, or transmitted from people or other sources, or that offend public morals.

The winner, Tamer Dabbas from Aleppo, stated in a statement to SANA that he narrated through his story the events of extinguishing the fire of the Nafous District in the Al-Saba 'area of ​​Bahrat, Aleppo, pointing out the importance of documenting the diaries of the Syrians during the war period, through witnesses, events and real facts that touched our souls and feelings.

The ceremony was attended by Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr. Rima Qadri, Damascus Governor Adel Al-Olabi and a number of members of the People's Assembly.

The “Watanat Watan” Foundation, which was officially created on June 9, 2016, as a Syrian non-governmental and non-profit organization concerned with oral history, research and documentation, launched the “My Story” award at the Adnan Mardam Bey House of Arts and Arts in Old Damascus last August.

Maha Al-Atrash