http://thelibel.com/blogs/mos/archive/tags/arabic/default.aspxTags: arabicenCommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)http://thelibel.com/blogs/mos/archive/2009/03/09/EULY-Essay-Writing-Competition.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 14:53:00 GMT9d4e2773-baf6-4b4a-bb65-3bce2c4a10a0:87466Bart0http://thelibel.com/blogs/mos/comments/87466.aspxhttp://thelibel.com/blogs/mos/commentrss.aspx?PostID=87466<span style="font-family:Garamond;font-size:48px;font-weight:bold;">Why am I a liberal?</span><br /> <p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><strong><span>Essay Writing Competition</span></strong></p> <p><span>&nbsp;<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>As the Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth, our aim is to promote the liberal ideas and the concept of personal freedom. Hardly any other word is misunderstood and confused as much as the word liberal. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find good texts about liberalism in the Arabic language. Often the enemies of liberalism, radicals and extremists on the left and the right, write about the ideas. Also: the majority of the publications in Arabic are translations from foreign languages.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>We want to change all this and want to ask you to help us. Our objective is to publish a good book that explains to the Egyptian youth in their own language what it means to be a liberal today.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>To find the best texts, we are organizing an essay writing contest about liberalism. To create an incentive, we will give attractive prizes to the writers of the best texts.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>All the texts must deal with the central question of our competition: </span></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><span>&nbsp;WHY AM I A LIBERAL?</span></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><span>&nbsp;There are many ways to answer this question. At the heart of your essay should be answers to the questions why you believe liberalism is a good thing for the Egyptian youth and Egypt.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Like all competitions, ours also has some rules:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>Anybody under the age of 35 years may participate.. They must be original and in colloquial Arabic. Only texts submitted by email to </span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#404040;"><a href="mailto:mosab2a@librali.net" target="_blank">mosab2a@librali.net</a><span></span><span><span></span> </span></span></span><span>will be reviewed. The texts should not exceed 2000 words. The deadline for submissions is 31. March 2009.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>The procedure: Three prominent experts will be our judges and select from all the texts the twenty best. All these 20 texts will be published in a book; the winners will receive ten copies of this book with his/her essay and also the amount of 500 L.E. as a prize. The writer of the best essay will also be invited to a two-week-stay in Germany for an international seminar on liberalism sponsored by our partner Friedrich Naumann Foundation.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><span>&nbsp;</span></p> <p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span><a href="http://www.librali.net/" target="_blank">www.librali.net</a> </span></p><img src="http://thelibel.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=87466" width="1" height="1">arabicegyptliberalism