{"id":10343,"date":"2019-01-09T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2019-01-09T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:12:57","slug":"press-release-5th-international-simorgh-peace-prize-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2019\/01\/press-release-5th-international-simorgh-peace-prize-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release 5th International Simorgh Peace Prize awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kabul-Paris, 8 December 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Armanshahr Foundation\/OPEN ASIA lauded the awardees of the 5<\/b><\/span>th<\/sup><\/b><\/span> International Simorgh Peace Prize today, marking the 70<\/b><\/span>th<\/sup><\/b><\/span> anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the commencement of the 6<\/b><\/span>th<\/sup><\/b><\/span> \u201cHuman Rights Week\u201d of Armanshahr, <\/b><\/span>in Kabul<\/b><\/span>. This year\u2019s Simorgh Peace Prize centred on the motto of \u201cMy ideal city\u201d and the awardees received the Festival\u2019s statute and prizes during a warm ceremony.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Marking the International Day of Peace in 2017, Armanshahr Foundation\/OPEN ASIA had called on pupils from schools across Afghanistan, from Herat to Kandahar, to submit their works of poetry, stories and drawings based on the motto of \u201cMy ideal city\u201d for the 5<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> International Simorgh Peace Prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

From among 2,000 drawings and texts in Persian and Pashto, 33 works were selected, which are currently being published over 33 days, as a clear message in praise of peace and abhorrence for war, as part of \u201c<\/span>My ideal city campaign<\/span>\u201d. A selection of the submitted drawings have been published, together with poems from the Caravan of <\/span>Light<\/span>, in a book with the title of \u201cMy ideal City<\/span><\/a>\u201d in Afghanistan in 2017. Furthermore, this book formed the basis for a short documentary film \u201cMy ideal City<\/span><\/a>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this edition of the 5<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> International Simorgh Peace Prize, five schools from Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces were selected as the awardees of the lapis lazuli Simorgh Peace Statute. Representatives of these schools received the statutes during the ceremony today:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Zeynab High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Eyno<\/span> High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    a) Awardees of the Drawings category (in Persian alphabetical order):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    1. Umulbanin Mohammadi, daughter of, 11 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    2. Bibi Halima Vatandoost, daughter of Abdullah, 10 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    3. <\/span>Hassanat<\/span> Jan, <\/span>daughter<\/span> of Mohammad Shafi, 10 years old, <\/span>Aynoo<\/span> High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    4. Rossana Vahdat, daughter of Habibullah, 9 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    5. Zubaida <\/span>Popal<\/span>, daughter of Abidullah, 9 years old, <\/span>School??<\/span> Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    6. Zahra<\/span>, daughter of Zaker, 9 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    7. Ali Akbar Hossein, son of Mohammad Ali, 12 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    8. Fatema<\/span>, daughter of Sardar Mohammad, 8 years old,<\/span> Eyno<\/span> High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    9. Fatema Noorzay, daughter of Hajji Moshaver, 12 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    10. Ferdows Amini, daughter of Fereydoon, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    11. Madina Youssef, daughter of Mohammad Youssef, 11 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    12. Malali<\/span>, daughter of Issa Mohammad, 8 years old, Zeynab High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    13. Maleka Fayzi, daughter of Hajji Sardar Mohammad, 12 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    14. <\/span>Mahtash<\/span> Akbari, <\/span>daughter<\/span> of Ali Ahmad, 7 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    15. Mahdiya<\/span>, daughter of Seyyed Zaman, 10 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    16. Nazanin Abbasi, daughter of Ahmad Masood, 9 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    b) Awardees of the Text category (in Persian alphabetical order):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    1. Abolfazl<\/span>, son of Mohammad Zaki, 12 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    2. Ahmad Ali Hafizi, son of Mohammad Sadeq, 17 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    3. Ahmad Fahim, 17 years old (submitted only a contact phone number:<\/span> 0728847943)<\/span><\/p>\n

    4. Arghavan Nikdel, daughter of Mohammad Youssef, 12 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    5. Parvin<\/span>, daughter of Mohammad Amin, 13 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    6. Hayatullah Mohammadi, 17 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    7. Sona <\/span>Popal<\/span>, daughter of Nematullah, 14 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    8. Shaghayegh Arabnejad, daughter of Ali Sheer, 14 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    9. Sadaf <\/span>Popal<\/span>, daughter of Mahmoud Shah, 14 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    10. Ali Reza Safari, son of Hajji Mohammad, 14 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    11. Gol Hassan Mohammadi, son of Ali, 18 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    12. Mohammad Reza Hassanzada, <\/span>??<\/span>, 13 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    13. Maryam Ahmadi<\/span>, 15 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    14. <\/span>Morssal<\/span> Soroori<\/span>, 14 years old, Towhid Schools Group, Herat<\/span><\/p>\n

    15. Marzia Azimi, daughter of Ghulam Sakhi, 16 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    16. Mehdi Ahmadi<\/span>, 12 years old, Marifat School, Kabul<\/span><\/p>\n

    17. Nayba Hakimi<\/span>, 16 years old, Malali High School, Kandahar<\/span><\/p>\n

    Armanshahr Foundation\/OPEN ASIA established the International Simorgh Peace Prize<\/span><\/a> at the heart of Asia (the three neighbouring countries Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan) in 2009. Around 1,000 works were submitted for the 1<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> edition, during which poets and writers working for peace by combatting war, violence and militarism through literature received awards. In the 2<\/span>nd<\/sup><\/span> edition, independent publishers of Afghanistan, the National Library of Tajikistan as well as the Ministry of Culture of Tajikistan \u2013 for establishing a large house for books and its publishing activities \u2013 were lauded. In the 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span> edition, the awardees were musicians who have been winning hearts of their audiences by sowing the seeds of peace and affection. During the 4<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> edition, women were praised as the true guards of peace in the three neighbouring countries; women who hate warmongering and stand against it by their persevering civic initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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