Damascus-SANA
The Watan Document Foundation and the National Union of Syrian Students honored this evening, in the auditorium of Damascus University, the winners of the prizes for the “This is My Story” competition for the year 2022.
The competition aims to promote culture and spread awareness among Syrian youth, as the Watan Document Foundation and the Student Union sought this year to reach the best realistic short story whose events the students witnessed themselves, bearing meaningful human values, and aimed at integrating university students in the documentation process by telling their stories and memories, And make them part of the process of intellectual and cultural reconstruction, and participate in shaping the features of tomorrow.
The number of winners of the competition’s prizes reached 11, distributed among the categories of stories in the “War on Syria” category. The golden prize was given to the winner Lynn Muhanna (Latakia), while the silver prize was awarded to the winner Walid Dawood (Damascus countryside), and the bronze prize to the winner Nafeh Al-Sayadi (Deir Ezzor).
The gold award in the category of “Student Memoirs and Narrative of Events” was given to Abeer Signor from Tartous, while the silver award was awarded to Judy Hamamiya from Damascus, and the bronze award to Thaer Al-Ajaj from Al-Raqqa.
In the “Cultural Heritage” category, the golden award was given to the winner, Haneen Al-Kulaib (Al-Hasakah), while the silver award was given to the winner, Imad Barhoum, from “Lattakia.” The bronze award was withheld in this category.
The golden award in the “Challenge and Success” category was given to the winner Fares Dadoush from Hama, while the silver award was given to the winner Ayatollah Al-Mufleh from Daraa, and the bronze award to Rana Muhammad from Lattakia. Alienation and Integration” because the submitted stories did not meet the terms of this year’s award.
The stories of the winners and the stories that reached the finalists will be published in a book entitled “This is My Story 2022”.
In her speech, Dr. Buthaina Shaaban, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Watan Document Foundation, said: For the fourth year in a row, we meet at the “This is My Story” award ceremony, as the pens of unknown soldiers from our dear country overflow us with stories of steadfastness and pride with which our valiant people and army faced the Western terrorist war against Syria.. stories confirming the Syrian Arab's rootedness in the land and belonging.. stories that carry the highest meanings of giving and love for homelands.
Dr. Shaaban commended the Foundation's partnership this year with the National Union of Syrian Students, and confirmed that it was a rich experience in all its details, contributions and goals, and expressed her hope to continue this partnership in various aspects for the benefit of our students and universities and the Watan Document Foundation.
For her part, the head of the National Union of Syrian Students, Darine Suleiman, congratulated the winners who joined the family of the Watan Document, and confirmed that the union worked with every
The spirit of partnership and integration with the partners in the Watan Document Foundation to translate goals and objectives and disseminate them among students and youth across the Syrian universities and institutes. Various stages of hard work in the work of the union.
In interviews with SANA, a number of the winners expressed their thanks and appreciation to the organizers of the competition. Student Lynn Muhanna, who studies in the Arabic Language Department at the Faculty of Arts at Tishreen University, said: The competition gave us the opportunity to write with our own hands the stories and anecdotes that happened with us, so that the memory of our martyrs remains immortal and present. We have a lifetime.
For his part, student Nafeh al-Sayadi, who is studying a master's degree in biotechnology at Al-Baath University, said: He documented a story about the suffocating siege that the city of Deir ez-Zor witnessed during the war, the details of the siege, food and water insecurity, and the process of the Syrian Arab Army entering the city, lifting the siege and opening the way for everyone.
The honorable Syrian-Assyrian family, Mrs. Caroline Haskour and her husband, Martin Tamros, confirmed that the suffering they experienced was great, and that they worked to document all of this verbally and with the available documents, pointing to the importance of what the Foundation is doing in this field.
The ceremony included the screening of a short film about the stages of preparation for the competition in the governorates, and a film that included interviews with the winners, and lyrical and musical performances entitled “Quintet of the Spirit of the East” led by Maestro Adnan Fathallah. For a Syrian-Assyrian family that stood firm during the war and was a role model in defending the homeland, rooting in its land, and resisting all temptations to emigrate outside the country.
The Watan Document Foundation launched this competition for the first time in the summer of 2019. It is a non-governmental and non-profit organization concerned with knowledge documentation and oral history. It was launched on June 9, 2016.
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