Noor Magazine, issued by the World Organization for al-Azhar Graduates, celebrated the winners of its competitions which it had previously announced within the national project for reading, as a model sustainable cultural project for 2030.
The first three ranks in the reading competition were honored entitled “The best what I read”, in which the children provided summaries of the best books they read.
Furthermore, they clarified the topics of the books and their benefits. Besides, a specialized committee of senior writers had before it the summaries to identify the best three ones. The winners of the first three ranks were: Salma Abdul Motelleb, 10 years old, Yousef Amr, 10 years old, and the third rank was Basmallah Khalifah, 16 years old. Moreover, the winners of the drawing competition entitled “Modern Egypt in the eyes of its sons” during which the participant children drew big Egyptian projects such as road networks, fish farms, the cultivation of one million acres, the new Suez Canal, and beautification of downtown Cairo. A specialized technical committee sorted the artworks, and the results of the screening resulted in the winning of the first three places for the submitted drawings, won by the following names: Ahmad Medhat, 13 years old, Shahd Ahmad, 15 years old, and Kenzy Maged, 9 years old.
It is worth mentioning that Osama Yaseen, the Vice-Chairman of al -Azhar Graduates said to the winning children, we are so happy and proud of you and your talents. Thus, this celebration showed our desire to embrace your talents and encourage you to continue practicing them to qualify yourself to be opinion leaders and creators in the future. On the other hand, Prof. Noha Abbas, Noor Magazine Editor-in-Chief, asserted during the meeting the interest of those working in the magazine to foster the children’s talents, develop and encourage them to continue.
Moreover, Abdul Monem Hussein, Noor Magazine Deputy Editor-in-Chief, said that these talented children prove that our country is full of positive energy, and what they need is to encourage and support them.
He added that these competitions and events are within the national project of reading which began in March 2020, aiming to raise awareness of reading importance and strengthen national and humanitarian values.
