Dear all,
Remember the reading competition I won last year? (Click Here if you don't) Well it's on again this year!!!
Remember the reading competition I won last year? (Click Here if you don't) Well it's on again this year!!!
The Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO in Lebanon is organizing a reading competition. If you've been reading for free, now you might get some money out of it! The prizes are 3,000,000 L.L. (2000 dollars), 2,250,000 L.L. and 1,500,000 L.L. For details, please see below. Briefly, you can participate if you are over 25 y. o. and are willing to read 5 books in 5 months and write a review for each.
Besides the obvious tempting financial rewards, there are many reasons why I think you should sign up to this competition.
1- You like to read and have been reading for ages and this is finally your chance at getting some recognition and appreciation for your passion.
2- Just another excuse to read five new books (as if you needed one).
3- To encourage other people around you to read and maybe participate with you in the competition.
4- To make a statement: Lebanese people read! Just look at how much participated in this competition alone.
And last but not least,
5- Because I won the first prize last year and there's no reason why you can't win it this year!!!
Besides the obvious tempting financial rewards, there are many reasons why I think you should sign up to this competition.
1- You like to read and have been reading for ages and this is finally your chance at getting some recognition and appreciation for your passion.
2- Just another excuse to read five new books (as if you needed one).
3- To encourage other people around you to read and maybe participate with you in the competition.
4- To make a statement: Lebanese people read! Just look at how much participated in this competition alone.
And last but not least,
5- Because I won the first prize last year and there's no reason why you can't win it this year!!!
At the awards ceremony (I'm the girl in the middle, second row)
Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO Reading Award 2015
True to its mission to promote the culture of spreading
knowledge, the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO launches the second edition of the
annual national reading award, aimed at promoting reading as a means for the construction
of thought and the blossoming of the human being, and therefore as an enabling factor for
sustainable development.
Target Group:
Readers over 25 years old, not working in the publishing industry.
Conditions of Participation:
- A minimum of 5 books must be read.
- Minimum length of book is 125 pages.
- To be eligible, the selected books should not have been used by the applicant to write an academic research study, a newspaper article, a report for a publishing house or to participate in a cultural forum.
Submission Process:
Phase I from 10/10/2014 to 10/11/2014
Registration at the Lebanese National Commission office (Hamra – Ministry of Culture Building – 1st floor)
Phase II from 16/03/2015 to 31/03/2015
Submission of a 500-word reflection paper for each book read during a specified period of time. Applicants must avoid plagiarism.
Selection Process: from 13/04/2015 to 17/04/2015
The selection process is carried out by an assessment committee formed at the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO, and is made of two stages:
1. Screening and shortlisting of the candidates.
2. Oral interviews for the shortlisted candidates will be conducted to assess the quality of reading and its influence on the reader’s thoughts and vision of the world.
The announcement of the winners and the awards ceremony will take place under the patronage of the Minister of Culture, in the framework of the national reading week, in the end of April 2015.
Prizes:
1st Prize: 3.000.000 L.L.
2nd Prize: 2.250.000 L.L.
3rd Prize: 1.500.000 L.L.
Note: Cookbooks, poetry, astrology and religious books are not eligible.
For further information, kindly contact the Lebanese National Commission: 01-749105
(Mrs. Katia Ibrahim - Head Librarian and Activity Coordinator).
Target Group:
Readers over 25 years old, not working in the publishing industry.
Conditions of Participation:
- A minimum of 5 books must be read.
- Minimum length of book is 125 pages.
- To be eligible, the selected books should not have been used by the applicant to write an academic research study, a newspaper article, a report for a publishing house or to participate in a cultural forum.
Submission Process:
Phase I from 10/10/2014 to 10/11/2014
Registration at the Lebanese National Commission office (Hamra – Ministry of Culture Building – 1st floor)
Phase II from 16/03/2015 to 31/03/2015
Submission of a 500-word reflection paper for each book read during a specified period of time. Applicants must avoid plagiarism.
Selection Process: from 13/04/2015 to 17/04/2015
The selection process is carried out by an assessment committee formed at the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO, and is made of two stages:
1. Screening and shortlisting of the candidates.
2. Oral interviews for the shortlisted candidates will be conducted to assess the quality of reading and its influence on the reader’s thoughts and vision of the world.
The announcement of the winners and the awards ceremony will take place under the patronage of the Minister of Culture, in the framework of the national reading week, in the end of April 2015.
Prizes:
1st Prize: 3.000.000 L.L.
2nd Prize: 2.250.000 L.L.
3rd Prize: 1.500.000 L.L.
Note: Cookbooks, poetry, astrology and religious books are not eligible.
For further information, kindly contact the Lebanese National Commission: 01-749105
(Mrs. Katia Ibrahim - Head Librarian and Activity Coordinator).
Cheers,
Isabelle
