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This year's SKE award winners

This year's SKE award winners

Winners and nominees of the SKE award, June, 5, 2023. (Credit: Mathiew Karam/L'Orient-Le Jour)

BEIRUT — Inas Hakky (Syria), Mohamad Chreyteh (Lebanon) and Mahmoud al Sobky (Egypt) on Monday won the Samir Kassir Eye's (SKE) award for best journalists in Arab countries within their categories.

The event in its 18th edition started with the Lebanese and the European Union's anthem and was followed by speeches by EU's ambassador to Lebanon Ralph Tarraf and the president of the Samir Kassir foundation, Gisele Khoury, widow of Samir Kassir, who was assassinated in 2005.

Khoury gave a strongly worded speech, criticizing the ruling political class in Lebanon, Hezbollah (without directly naming the organization) and the Syrian occupation in Lebanon which ended in 2005. She also criticized attacks against Syrian refugees and NGOs amidst a wave of demands for the repatriation of the Syrian refugees in recent weeks in Lebanon. "You are the ones responsible for Lebanon’s crisis, you are the ones responsible of changing Lebanon’s image since the Syrian occupation," she said. Khoury also referenced two articles written by Kassir, which she claimed earned him threats.

A Journalist, Samir Kassir was a vocal opponent of the Syrian regime. He was assassinated in 2005, amid a wave of assassinations which claimed the lives of various  journalists and politicians, like Rafic al-Hariri, who opposed Syrian occupation. Many blame the Syrian government and Hezbollah for these assassinations. The UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon accused Hezbollah members of being behind Hariri's assassination.

The winners of the prize were Mahmoud al Sobky (Egypt) in the investigative reporting category , Mohamad Chreyteh (Lebanon) for the audiovisual news category and Inas Hakky (Syria) in the opinion category.

BEIRUT — Inas Hakky (Syria), Mohamad Chreyteh (Lebanon) and Mahmoud al Sobky (Egypt) on Monday won the Samir Kassir Eye's (SKE) award for best journalists in Arab countries within their categories.
The event in its 18th edition started with the Lebanese and the European Union's anthem and was followed by speeches by EU's ambassador to Lebanon Ralph Tarraf and the president of the Samir Kassir...