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    UNESCO EVENT TO FEATURE SYRIAN-ARMENIAN LENA CHAMAMYAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    February 22, 2012 - 12:29 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - In recognition of their efforts in raising awareness
    of the Arab culture around the world, UNESCO is to honor Lebanese
    author, Elias Khoury, and Brazilian publisher, João Baptista de
    Medeiros Vargens, at a ceremony on February 27 at its headquarters
    in Paris, France.

    In a press release, UNESCO said its Director-General, Irina Bokova,
    would honor the two with the 2011 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab
    Culture.

    Elias Khoury, born in Beirut in 1948, is a novelist, playwright,
    critic and academic. He is the author of a dozen novels, including
    'The Little Mountain, White Masks and Gate of the Sun'. His books
    have been translated into more than 10 languages, including Hebrew. As
    Editor-in-Chief of the literary supplement of the An Nahar newspaper
    between 1992 and 2009, he played a pivotal role in the promotion of
    Arab culture.

    The Brazilian, João Baptista de Medeiros Vargens, born in Río de
    Janeiro in 1952, is a publisher, writer, translator, lexicographer
    and professor of Arab language and culture.

    The UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture was established at the
    initiative of the United Arab Emirates to reward the efforts of a
    national of an Arab country and a national of any other country who
    have contributed, through artistic, intellectual or promotional work,
    towards the development and dissemination of Arab culture in the world.

    Each laureate will receive US$30,000.

    The 10th anniversary of the Prize will be celebrated this year with
    a thematic debate about Art and culture, instruments of Peace. The
    programme includes two roundtable debates, one about perspectives on
    new forms of artistic expression by young Arabs and the other on Arab
    heritage and cultural Diversity.

    The ceremony will feature a concert of classical Arab music by Lena
    Chamamyan, who is the Syrian-Armenian laureate of the 2006 Radio
    Monte-Carlo Moyen Orient music prize.

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