Award ceremony of the 15th Edition of the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay will award the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture to this year’s laureates, the Lebanese cultural organizer and curator, Christine Tohme, and the Argentinean nongovernmental Asociación Civil del Creciente Cine Fértil para la Promoción de la Diversidad Cultural.

Created in 1998 at the initiative of the United Arab Emirates, the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture rewards the efforts of two personalities or organizations, one from an Arab country and one from any other country, who have made a significant contribution to the development, dissemination and promotion of Arab culture in the world.