(EULY) wins a 2009 Templeton Freedom Award
Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced the winners of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, the largest international awards program for think tanks, with a 10 thousand dollars award for each winner. 16 winners were selected this year from more than 130 applications from 47 countries. EULY has won in the “Special Achievement by a Young Institute” category, for its “Why Am I a Liberal?” essay competition, the first of its kind in the Arab world.
EULY'S Film
Rabab Amidane & West Sahara
Egyptian Journalism and Anti
Semitism
By : Samuel Tdros ( Board Member of EULY )
Egypt’s ongoing problem of Anti Semitism seems to be increasing lately. The last example was published just yesterday in El Gomhoria newspaper, which is a government, owned and run newspaper. Mohamed Abu Hadid writes a weekly column in the newspaper that covers nearly one whole page. He usually writes a long article on a topic and after that writes small one line comments on important news of the week. In his article on the 10th of January the comments section included this line that read as follows: “Insisting on confirming its bias, the US Congress has sent to us a member to visit Egypt by the name of Steve Israel”.
The Union of the Egyptian Liberal Youth (EULY) is a civic not-for-profit organization seeking to create a kernel for a lobbying group that promotes the principles of political, economic and social liberty in order to redefine the relationship between the individual and the State in Egypt. The Union is based organizationally on open membership to Egyptian youth without discrimination on the basis of religion or sex, and intellectually on the concept of individual liberty as established by the enlightenment literature and its applications in the modern societies.
