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Join on Telegram Abu Dhabi – Morocco’s Fadwa Moussahim, Suad Miskeen, and Belkacem El Jattari won the Khalifa Educational Award on Tuesday, in a ceremony held in Emirati capital Abu Dhabi.
Moussahim won the “Khalifa International Award for Early Learning/ Best Programs, Curricula, Teaching Methodologies and Practices” for the ANEER program with Zakoura Foundation, which spotlights children in Morocco’s rural communities.
“I would like to thank and express my pride in the participants, staff, benefiters, and the Kingdom of Morocco,” she expressed.
The Khalifa Education Awards ceremony.
The foundation’s project is titled “ANEER: An Innovative Community-Based Preschool Model Program of Zakoura Foundation.”
Miskeen, a professor at the Abdelmalek Saadi University of Tetouan, won for her children’s literature study research titled “Child-Directed Narration Patterns and Mediums.”
“In a world of globalization and technological advancements, creativity is dwindling. This award is a resignification and affirmation of the values shaping the integrity of human creativity and the importance behind its continuity”, Miskeen told Morocco World News (MWN).
The Khalifa Education Awards ceremony.
She further highlighted the significance of the awards in commending talents on a national and regional scale, “enriching the spirit of Arab identity and uniting it under the front of development.”
The professor also presented herself at the ceremony in traditional Moroccan clothing, telling MWN that she wanted to be “noticeably Moroccan.”
El Jattari, meanwhile, won for the “Innovation in Teaching Arabic Language Innovative University Lecturer” category at the UAE level, for his work with the Mohamed bin Zayed University for Humanities.
The ceremony was held in Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi and welcomed VIP personalities, such as Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, who presented the awards.
The Khalifa Education Awards ceremony.
Abdelillah Ouadadas, Chief of Affairs at the Moroccan Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Ezz-Al-Arab Sahnoun, the embassy’s cultural advisor, were amongst the attendees to reinforce Moroccan pride and support the accomplishments of the Moroccan women spotlighted at the event.
The Khalifa Award for Education was created with the aim of enriching development in the educational field, considered a central tenet to sustainable human development and a countries’ empowerment and prosperity.
The Khalifa Education Awards ceremony.
The award celebrates the advancements and developments of participants in 19 fields involving educational accomplishments. The Moroccan winners particularly shone bright in the fields of higher education and educational research.
Moroccan women have excelled on the regional and continental levels recently. In May, Hiba Al Farshiwi was crowned “Queen of African Mathematics” during the African Mathematics Olympiad, putting a spotlight on Moroccan women’s excellence in the scientific fields.
