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    Speaker of Morocco’s House of Councilors Receives ICESCO Director-General

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    Mr. Hakim Benchamach, Speaker of the House of Councilors of Morocco, received on September 28, Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO). The two officials explored cooperation and partnership between the two institutions in mutual interests.

    At the House of Councilors in Rabat, the DG highlighted the key features of ICESCO’s new vision. He added that the Organization launched several new programs and projects and amended its regulations and Charter. The Organization also introduced structural changes to its personnel and adopted new strategies. He also stated that ICESCO launched initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Dr. AlMalik underlined that the Organization started to pay tremendous attention to building constructive communication with governmental and civil institutions in the Seat Country. ICESCO is keen to cooperate with them in implementing joint programs and activities, he continued. The DG expressed ICESCO’s interest in developing deeper cooperation with the House of Councilors.

    Mr. Benchamach reaffirmed that he has been following up the work of ICESCO, the key roles it plays, and the challenges it addresses at the regional and international levels. He also expressed his appreciation for ICESCO’s noble mission and his good wishes for the Organization to make best use of the opportunities at hand.

    The Speaker of the House of Councilors noted that he reviewed the broad lines of ICESCO’s new vision and expressed his admiration of the changes it introduces, the prospects it opens, and its response to global transformations.

    Mr. Benchamach expressed the House’s willingness to promote cooperation and partnership with the Organization. He stated that legislative institutions are playing new roles in an extremely changing and transient world, especially in light of the emerging “fifth power” consisting of millions of citizens using social networks to express their opinions.

    The Speaker added that the new reality puts legislative institutions in face with new challenges be it in relation to drafting bills, overseeing governmental work, contributing to public policy evaluation or assuming diplomatic parliamentary roles.

    Mr. Benchamach expressed his admiration of ICESCO’s interest in artificial intelligence and his genuine willingness to conclude “thematic partnerships” between the two parties.

    He further explained that the partnerships could touch on issues such as healthcare, education, culture, nutrition, environment, rights, and communication. He also listed national reconciliation experiences in Member States and conflict issues.

    He recommended that ICESCO work on setting up a competence bank in the Islamic world to help Member States solve their problems, crises and challenges in health, education, and other fields.

    The DG welcomed concluding such partnership with Morocco’s House of Councilors as well as Member States’ parallel institutions.

    ICESCO Director-General Receives Ambassador of Tunisia to Rabat

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    Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), received Mr. Mohamed Ben Ayed, Ambassador of Tunisia to Morocco. The September 25 meeting explored cooperation prospects between ICESCO and Tunisia in the fields of education, science, and culture.

    Dr. AlMalik highlighted ICESCO’s main developments under its new vision and action strategy which promote an open-door policy with Member and non-Member States, international organizations, and civil society institutions. The goal is to build partnerships to benefit Muslim communities worldwide.

    Dr. AlMalik reviewed ICESCO’s major initiatives, programs, and activities that counter the negative repercussions of the pandemic in education, science, and culture. ICESCO provided technological equipment and materials to 25 countries to sustain schooling and offered in-kind aid and preventive materials to 10 other countries.

    The Organization also provided financial and technical assistance to produce best-cost sanitizer units and launched the “Comprehensive Humanitarian Coalition” Initiative. Many countries, international institutions, and donors joined the coalition, explained Dr. AlMalik as he called upon Tunisia to become a member.

    The DG also highlighted that ICESCO established several specialized centers including, the Center for Strategic Foresight. The center is preparing four important studies on the future of the Islamic world, African countries, and cultural action, respectively, and AI challenges in the Muslim world, with the participation of renowned international experts. Another specialized center is the Arabic center for non-native Speakers.

    ICESCO also established the Heritage Center, which has inscribed 200 historic sites in the Member States on the Islamic World Heritage List, including 17 sites in Tunisia such as Medina of Tunis, Djerba Island, Jewish Synagogue in Sousse, and Medina of Sfax.

    Dr. AlMalik commended the instructive cooperation between ICESCO and Tunisia. One specific success is the “Celebration of Tunis as the Arab region’s Capital of Islamic Culture for 2019.” Culture Ministers from the Member States took part in the 11th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, held in Tunis last December. Dr. AlMalik also hailed the cooperation in the restoration of the house of Ibn Khaldoun in downtown Tunis.

    Mr. Mohamed Ben Ayed commended ICESCO’s outstanding work and quality initiatives to support the Member States to counter the negative repercussions of the pandemic. He also stressed Tunisia’s keenness to promote constructive cooperation with the Organization.

    Participants in ICESCO Webinar Call on International Community to Guarantee the Right to Education for All

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    During their participation at ICESCO’s International Webinar on “Education and the ‘Societies We Want’ Initiative,” a number of high-level international figures, ministers, and prominent experts in the field of education called on the international community to guarantee the right to inclusive and equitable education for all.

    The participants also called for providing vulnerable countries with the technological devices necessary for the continuity of distance schooling, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They stressed that education is the only way to build strong nations and attain a better future for humanity.

    Mr. Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil, was the guest of honor at ICESCO’s Webinar. The event was in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHR), the Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education, and Instituto Lula. The Webinar discussed the “necessary roles of education for achieving the features of the Societies We Want.”

    Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, ICESCO’s Director-General (DG), chaired the opening session, during which Mr. Da Silva talked about the Brazilian experience in developing education. He underlined that the poor are not the problem but rather an integral part of the solution if countries equip them with good education and utilize their competences.

    “Education is the foundation for building nations,” the former Brazilian president stated.

    The DG stressed the need to rethink the education systems and adopt new creative teaching methods. He added that the aim is to build the education of the future, which will follow diverse patterns. ICESCO adopts the subject as an organization interested in foresight to help its Member States build their respective education systems, he noted.

    The Webinar also witness the participation of Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Peace in 2014. Mr. Satyarthi stated that vulnerable groups should benefit from the global budgets to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. He also called for increasing this budget, estimated at 8 trillion dollars; and increasing the sum allocated for poor countries by 20%.

    Ms. Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Partnership for Education, noted that the “societies we want” cannot be built without guaranteeing quality education for every child. The CEO added that building healthy societies also entails ensuring gender equality in education. She argued that an educated girl is more likely to save her families from poverty, protect her children, and send them to school.

    Dr. Koumbou Boly Barry, Director of ICESCO’s Education Sector, chaired the Webinar’s first session to address “Policies and Mechanisms for Ensuring Equitable and Inclusive Quality Education for All.”

    Several Member States’ Education Ministers gave statements during this session. Mr. Shafqat Mahmood, Minister of Federal Education and Professional Training in Pakistan, stressed the need to reconsider programs and reform school syllabi and curricula to keep up with graduates’ competences and job market requirements.

    Mr. Fernando Haddad, Former Brazilian Minister of Education, stated that ensuring quality education requires three conditions:

    • Motivating teachers, appreciating their work, and providing them with continuous training;
    • Ensuring sustainable funding for a sustainable implementation of educational policies;
    • Ensuring quality education through permanent evaluation.

    Dr. Hatem Ben Salem, former education Minister of Tunisia, noted that the international community should be committed to education in a way that allows for developing a roadmap and a clear vision for future education and innovative approaches.

    Ms. Aïcha Bah Diallo, former education Minister of Guinea, stated that education is the backbone of sustainable education. It is of paramount importance to ensure its quality to achieve development, she added noting that women’s education promotes countries’ economies, encourages further tolerance, and preserves social cohesion.

    Ms. Claudiana Ayo Cole, Minister of Primary and Secondary Education in Gambia, said that quality education is a tool for changing the lives of individuals. Education ensures stability and guarantees the full enjoyment of human rights as a basis for achieving sustainable development.

    Ms. Ramata Almamy Mbaye, Director of Human and Social Sciences Sector at ICESCO, moderated the second session. Experts and practitioners in the field shared thoughts on the topic.

    Dr. Daniel Cara, professor at São Paulo University and Board Member of the Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education, touched upon the relationship between education and the economy. He stressed that the economy should serve people through investing correctly in education.

    Ms. Delia Mamon, chairwoman of “Graines de Paix“, (Seeds of Peace) an association based in Switzerland, affirmed that to build a better world, we should think on a larger scale. She suggested to focus on creative solutions and motivate children to think by themselves.

    Professor Ki-Seok “Korbil” Kim, Chairman of Educators Without Borders (EWB), South Korea, maintained the necessity to change human behavior to prevent diseases. Education is incredibly important to stop discrimination and illegal practices, he added.

    “We want to make our societies developed, healthy, resilient and sustainable because societies cannot move forward without the participation of all,” commented Ms. Mbaye underlining that “Covid-19 vaccines should be made available for all without discrimination.”

    Dr. AlMalik stressed, in his closing remarks, the need for combating gender discrimination and called for mobilizing financial resources to develop educational systems through innovative methodologies that suit future requirements.

    ICESCO Director-General: World Changes Entail New Thought and Communication Mechanisms

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    **Renewal in religion calls for identifying constants and variables in religious texts and figuring out ways for their tangible adoption

    Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, the Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) underlined that current world changes resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak accentuated the dire need for religion.

    The DG stated that determining the role of religion within today’s world calls for setting up new mechanisms for thought and communication and laying down clear-cut goals. He added that it also calls for identifying constants and variables in religious texts to adopt them in this ever-changing world, noting that this is the very sense of renewal that Islam promotes.

    Dr. AlMalik made the statement at the “Virtual International Academic Conference” that the Spiritual Assembly of the Muslims of Russia organized yesterday, via videoconference. The theme of the conference was “Religion in a changing world: Education and the youth.” The event brought together religious and intellectual leaderships from 20 countries.

    The DG called on Russia to become an active part of the Islamic world that defends the interests of its countries and peoples and cooperates with them in their quest for prosperity, progress and development. He noted that Islam is the second biggest religion in Russia, with 20 to 25 million followers out of Russia’s 140-million population.

    “ICESCO has embarked on the implementation of the activities likely to showcase its new vision and orientations, most notably the organization of the International Virtual Forum on “Role of Religious Leaderships in Face of Crises,” highlighted Dr. AlMalik.

    The theme was “Toward Global Moral Solidarity of Religious Leaderships,” which brought together His Excellency Mr. Idriss Deby Itno, President of Chad, and religious leaderships and institutions of different faiths representing the majority of the world population.

     The forum issued a historical document entitled “ICESCO Declaration for Moral Solidarity,” continued Dr. AlMalik.

    Dr. AlMalik also stated that several global religious leaderships and institutions welcomed the declaration. ICESCO published the document in the Organization’s working languages (Arabic, English and French) and submitted this document to the leaders of G20 and the United Nations, he added.

    ICESCO’s DG called upon the participants in the Conference of Spiritual assembly of Muslims of Russia to incorporate the “ICESCO Declaration for Moral Solidarity” into the outputs and recommendations of the conference.

    He also commended its general guidelines and principles and calling for its translation into the Russian language and the languages of this region’s Muslim communities for wider benefit.

    Lula Da Silva at ICESCO’s Symposium: Education basis of nation-building, the poor part of the solution to countries’ problems

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    AlMalik: The COVID-19 pandemic requires reconsidering educational systems and adopting new creative methods

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    His Excellency Lula Da Silva, former president of Brazil, stressed the need to prioritize education to ensure a prosperous future and a decent life. “Not only politicians have the responsibility to change the world for the better, society also has its own share,” he stated.

    “Education is a prerequisite for nation-building and change. We should ensure education for poor children. The poor are not the problem. They are rather part of the solution to countries’ problems through proper orientation,” he added.

    The statement was an excerpt from Da Silva’s address at the opening session of the International Virtual Symposium. The Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) organized yesterday the event under the theme “Education and ‘the Societies We Want’ Initiative.” The symposium brought together many education ministers of ICESCO’s Member States and high-level international figures and specialists.

    Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, ICESCO Director-General (DG), chaired the opening session. He affirmed that “the Organization launched ‘the Societies We Want’ Initiative during the lockdown period to build healthy, peaceful, prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable societies.”

    “Education is the solution to eliminate gender discrimination and poverty, reduce mortality, eradicate diseases, and promote peace,” he added.

    Dr. AlMalik also stated that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the biggest disorder of education systems throughout history, pointing out that the closure of educational institutions influenced nearly 1.6 billion learners in 190 countries worldwide and almost 99% in low and middle-income countries.

    “Efforts should be joined to overcome the repercussions of the pandemic, reconsider the educational systems, and adopt innovative educational methods to build the education we want in the future. As a foresight organization, ICESCO adopts this issue and will assist the Member States to build their educational systems,” he stressed.

    ICESCO’s DG also warned that the “learning poverty” indicator in low and middle-income countries indicates that 53% of 10-year-old children are unable to read or understand a simple story. He continued that girls and women are still underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

    The situation is significant despite the efforts exerted to provide education and reduce dropout rates.

    “Many countries, particularly in Africa, still face difficulties with access to the internet. Thus, support should be directed to poor countries and vulnerable societies through an educational system that keeps up with changes,” he stressed.

    In his address, Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, stated that education is a right for all, and no child should be deprived of this right. He called for joint action to develop a real program to ensure the right of education for all, build partnerships for social protection worldwide, and benefit the marginalized groups from the budgets allocated to counter the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mr. Satyarthi underscored the necessity to call on the international community to increase the budget allocated to counter the COVID-19 pandemic internationally, amounting to 8 trillion dollars, raise the proportion devoted to poor countries from 0.3% to 20%, and provide free vaccines of COVID-19 for all.

    Ms. Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Partnership for Education, said that the societies we want cannot be built without ensuring quality education for children. The CEO stressed that education is not only for the future of children, it also constitutes a key means for achieving prosperity and spreading peace worldwide.

    “Educated girls are best able to lift their families from poverty, immunize their children and enroll them in schools,” she added.

    Islamic World Heritage Day: ICESCO calls for Precautions to Reopen Museums and Heritage Sites

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    The Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) is delighted to celebrate the Islamic World Heritage Day and expresses its wishes for this day to be an occasion to consolidate the importance of human heritage in nations’ memories.
    The celebration of this day is the culmination of ICESCO’s ardent interest in heritage. The Organization was the one to propose celebrating the Islamic World Heritage Day, which was approved by the 11th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, held in Tunis on 17 December 2020.
    This day has become an annual opportunity to show the world at large the richness and diversity of the cultural heritage of the Islamic world countries. It is also an opportunity to highlight the remarkable efforts exerted to maintain and preserve this heritage.
    The exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic forced more than half the world’s population to stay at home and led to the closure of most heritage sites, historic landmarks, and museums for more than six months.
    Against this backdrop, ICESCO reiterates its great interest in safeguarding the human cultural heritage, raising awareness of its importance, and sounding the alarm to the risks of its destruction during crises. ICESCO translated this interest into support and assistance to its Member States, and outstanding efforts to publicize, restore, and rehabilitate the Islamic world heritage.
    These efforts include launching several initiatives and issuing declarations that aim to safeguard the Islamic world heritage. Chief among these are the initiative to proclaim the year 2019 as the “Islamic World Heritage Year” and “The Islamic Declaration on Safeguarding Human Heritage in the Islamic World”.
    Both the initiative and the declaration underlined the importance of integrating the governmental sectors, international and regional organizations, and civil society bodies as a joint front to pool efforts to safeguard the cultural heritage of the Islamic World.
    By the end of 2019, ICESCO launched a new strategy that features a more comprehensive and realistic approach to safeguarding heritage in the Islamic world. Concrete outcomes of this new approach consist of the Islamic World Heritage Center’s variety of programs and virtual activities in the field of heritage preservation.
    The Center organized several virtual training sessions for professionals working in different heritage fields such as underwater cultural heritage, intangible heritage, and museums. The Center also organized webinars that brought together experts and heritage directors from Member and non-Member States, and representatives of international organizations active in the field of heritage. These activities discussed heritage-related issues and the losses this field endured in light of the current health emergency.
    The organization of the International Virtual Conference on Countering Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property” culminated ICESCO’s heritage efforts.
    In light of the current serious and extraordinary circumstances, ICESCO calls on world countries, international and regional organizations, government institutions, and competent parties in charge of heritage to exert more efforts to promote tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
    The Organization also urges them to sustain their roles, even after the current crisis, to publicize and maintain this heritage. Stakeholders must employ virtual exhibition mechanisms and AI applications to safeguard heritage and highlight its richness and diversity. They must also take the necessary precautions to reopen heritage sites and raise peoples’ awareness of their significance.
    Our heritage is our identity. Let us join efforts to safeguard it.

    #OurHeritageOurFuture

    ICESCO Director General Meets Chargé d’affaires of Iraq to Rabat

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    Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), received yesterday, September 23, Dr. Botan Dizayee, Chargé d’affaires of the Iraqi Embassy at Morocco. The two officials explored avenues for cooperation between ICESCO and Iraq in education, science, and culture.

    Dr. AlMalik highlighted ICESCO’s new vision and strategy that promotes effective communication with the Member States. The Organization prepared country-specific programs that involve local authorities.

    “ICESCO also involves non-Member States to capitalize on their expertise in education, science, innovation, and culture, and can join ICESCO as observer states,” he added.

    Dr. AlMalik reviewed the ICESCO’s major initiatives, programs, and activities to help countries counter the negative repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Organization, in cooperation with donors, aided multiple Member States to ensure the continuity of schooling, provide prevention materials, establish best-cost sanitizer production units, and train local community members.

    The DG also stated that the Organization held many ministerial conferences and international forums during the pandemic. Heads of states and renowned international figures took part in several events, underlined Dr. AlMalik, while commending the active participation of the Iraqi officials.

    Dr. Hassan Nazim, Iraqi Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities participated in last July’s “The International Conference on Combating Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property and its Restitution.”

    “ICESCO has exerted great efforts to protect and conserve heritage through the establishment of the Islamic World Heritage Committee, the inscription of historic sites and intangible heritage on the Islamic World Heritage List, as well as the establishment of the Heritage Center,” explained Dr. AlMalik.

    “Iraq is among the countries most exposed to looting and desecration of antiquities. We can cooperate in this regard to inscribe the largest number possible of Iraqi heritage sites on the List,” he stressed.

    The Iraqi Chargé d’affaires commended ICESCO’s great efforts and support to the Member States while stressing his country’s keenness to cooperate with the Organization, particularly in the field of heritage.

    ICESCO and Côte d’Ivoire Review Common Opportunities

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    The Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) met on September 23, with Mr. Traore Idrissa, Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to Morocco.

    The Officials explored cooperation and partnership opportunities between ICESCO and the Republic in education, science, and culture.

    ICESCO’s new strategy gives priority to and is expanding cooperation with the African Member States, underlined Dr. AlMalik.

    The DG listed the major aspects of ICESCO’s new vision, including enhanced communication with the Member States for country-specific programs that are implemented in cooperation with each Member State’s local authorities.

     The DG noted that ICESCO’s initiatives, programs, and activities provided technological devices and equipment to 25 countries to support the production of educational content. The goal was to ensure the continuity of distance schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    ICESCO also provided preventive equipment and hygiene products to 10 other countries, elaborated Dr. AlMalik. The Organization granted financial and technical aid to produce best-cost sanitizers units in several countries along with training for local communities.

    Dr. AlMalik also highlighted the endeavors to modernize ICESCO’s work by introducing new operational models and implementing efficient strategies. One measure was to create specialized centers for strategic foresight, artificial intelligence, Arabic courses to non-native speakers, heritage, dialogue, and cultural diversity.

    He stated that the aim is to turn ICESCO into an active contributor in guaranteeing the right to inclusive and equitable education and supporting scientific research and innovation.

    The Organization also targets safeguarding cultural and civilizational heritage as a key element in preserving identity, while it. supports cultural dialogue to achieve peace and coexistence. The Organization assists the Member States in attaining sustainable development by building capacities among women and young people.

    The DG lauded the active participation of Ivoirian officials in ICESCO’s conferences and international forums. The events bring together high-caliber participants including heads of states and prominent international figures.  

    The Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire commended the Organization’s distinguished work carried out during the pandemic. He also lauded the assistance ICESCO provided to the Member States, especially in Africa.

    The Ambassador reaffirmed his country’s willingness to develop cooperation with ICESCO and benefit from its outstanding programs.

    President of Moroccan House of Representatives Commends ICESCO’s Cultural Development Initiatives

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    Habib El Malki: “ICESCO is a soft power with whom we share the same values and orientations.”

    Mr. Habib El Malki, President of the Moroccan House of Representatives, commended the initiatives of the Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) to support cultural development and international outreach.

    Mr. El Malki expressed his confidence in ICESCO’s approach to promote inter-civilizational dialogue, asserting that “ICESCO is a soft power with whom we share the same values and orientations.”

    The statement was part of Mr. El Malki’s Tuesday meeting with Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, ICESCO’s Director-General (DG), at the headquarters of the House of Representatives in Rabat.

    Mr. El Malki highlighted the major role of the Late King Hassan II in ICESCO’s establishment in 1982.

    “The Organization has significant international importance with its 54 Member States from all regions. The Organization’s efforts should be directed toward supporting the African countries in particular,” he stressed.

    Dr. AlMalik reaffirmed Morocco’s status as a founding and supportive country of the Organization. He also reviewed the of ICESCO’s strategic framework and upcoming projects, while highlighting the transparent vision.

    Morocco is a key partner for ICESCO, underlined Dr. AlMalik while commending the Organization’s project in Morocco in education, culture, and heritage conservation.

    Jury for ICESCO’s Short Films Award Holds First Meeting

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    The jury for ICESCO’s Short Films Award held the first meeting, at the headquarters of the Organization’s in Rabat, to reaffirm the selection criteria and tasks of the jury members prior to announcing the winners.
    The Jury comprises Mr. Najib Rhiati, Director of Culture and Communication Sector at ICESCO; Dr. Abdelilah Benarafa, Cultural Advisor to the Director-General (DG); Khaled Ibrahimi, Film Director; Mohammed Chouika, film critic and writer; and Abdelilah Hamdouchi, novelist and screenwriter. A team of ICESCO’s experts and technicians will also assist the jury.
    The Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) announced the Award in mid-April, as part of the “Distance Culture” initiative amid the COVID-19 related lockdown.
    The purpose is to encourage young artistic creativity, discover young talents in short fiction and documentary films production, disseminate peace, set up ICESCO Short Films Library, and anticipate “life economy” as well as future working patterns, creativity, production, and future jobs.
    The top three contestants will respectively win USD 8,000 for the 1st prize, USD 6,000 for the 2nd prize, and USD 4,000 for the 3rd prize cash awards. To qualify for the award, the short film must:

    1. Not exceed 4 minutes;
    2. Not have been submitted to a previous competition;
    3. Not undermine human, religious, or national values;
    4. Be subtitled in one of ICESCO’s three official languages (Arabic, English or French).

    ICESCO launched contests during lockdown in various creative fields, including short story, drawing, and short films. The winners for each contest will be announced in a chronological order.