- Source: Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East Region
Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East Region (VoFG Arabia, Arabic: أصوات أجيال المستقبل) is a writing initiative that promotes sustainability and the United Nations convention on the Rights of the Child. Sheikha Hissa Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Goodwill Ambassador of this initiative. In 2014, VoFG was launched internationally, whereas the launch of the Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East region was in 2019. The initiative organizes a writing competition for students aging between 8 and 12 years, which encourages young writers to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations convention on the Rights of the Child into their stories.
Child Author and Ambassador
= Ambassador
=The Voices of Future Generations (VoFG) programme, under the patronage of UNESCO, appointed Sheikah Hissa bint Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum as a Goodwill Ambassador for the Gulf Region. Whereas the Emirates Literature Foundation confirmed as consultants for the project for the next five years.
= Child Authors
=Round 1 Winners
English
Saira Thomas (First Place)
Sashini Manikandan (Second Place)
Shahid Fayis (Third Place)
Hazza Mohamed Rashed Al Ameri
Meghna Senthil Kumar
Ioana Teodorova Stefanova
Abrar Ahmed Sirohey
Mir Faraz
Aditi Gandhi
Joshua Melwin
Arabic
Saoud Ahmad Salem Alkabi (First Place)
Abdulkarim Ghazal (Second Place)
Ahmed Ismail Zindah (Third Place)
Nour Ahmed Alkhatib
Ward Wissam AlHalabi
Al Yaziah Salah Al Din Khamis Hilal Al Kaabi
Matra Ibrahim Salem Fairouz
Aamna Hamad Salem Obaid Saif Al Suwaidi
Lama Ehab Almousa
Suhaila Abdelhaleem Mansour
Round 2 Winners
English
Abrar Ahmed Sirohey (First Place)
Kripa Dixit (Second Place)
Inayah Fathima Faeez (Third Place)
Diniru Sathnidu Dissanayake
Mirana Gabin Mathew
Danial Petric
Mara Machado-Mullet
Jaivardhan Manish Nawani
Shaivi Kalwani
Ethan Dsouza
Advay Saravana Kumar
Arabic
Abdulla Ismail Abushabab (First Place)
Seba Awadh Mohammed Almusad (Second Place)
Mezna Najeeb (Third Place)
Hassan Nidal Hassam Awad
Hazza Ali Salem Mohamed Al Yileili
Mariam Eslam Mostafa Kandiel
Abdullah Mohammad Abdullah Alrabab'ah
Maktom Salim Khamis Salim Almazrouei
Aamna Hamad Salem Obaid Saif Al Suwaidi
Salim Ahmed Salim Alkaabi
Hania Asaad Sherif
Round 3 Winners
Inayah Faeez
Inaya Danish Zaidi
Mohammed Siddiqui
Nourah Alnaqbi
Rodina Badr
AbdulKareem Ghazal
Shaurya Chakravarty
Mariam Kandiel
Chris Stanley
Aisha AlKhayyal
Alex Abernethy
Hamad Alblooshi
Sana Priyadharshini
Zein Al Jundi
Advika Gupta
Khalid Alnaqbi
Siddharth Vachali
Mohamed Alzeyoudi
Sanvika Sandeep
Tala Alhajeh
Sadeen AlAqra
Round 4 Winners
Mir Faraz
Siddhant Seth
Shravni Nethra
Eishaal Rashid
Sophie Claire Dias
Alishbah Umar Khan
Hamdan Taha Noor
Lucia De Quesada Martin
Tinveer Naidoo
Nishuka Mahith Balasuriya
Diala Sadeq Khatib
Lemar Walid Al-Zrekat
Jana Osama Mahfouz Tahami
Judi Mohammed Jamal Abdul Hamid Mahmoud
Shahad Hassan Al-Eid Al-Suwaidan
Mohammed Abdulla Mohammed Almazrouei
Seilina Raafat Hamed
Khaloud Marwan Saleh Mohammed
Budoor Abullah Abbod BinSaad
Shama Mubarak Slayem Mubarak Alkhyeli
Yahya Alaa Gharib Abdalla
Illustrators
= Round 1
== Round 2
== Round 3
== Round 4
=Publications
Young Voices of Arabia (the 2020 collection), the Emirates literature Foundation, 2020 (EN) (ISBN 978-9948-8591-2-3)
Young Voices of Arabia (the 2020 collection) (original title: أصوات شابة من شبه الجزيرة العربية), the Emirates Literature Foundation, 2020 (ISBN 978-9948-8591-1-6)
Young Voices of Arabic (the 2021 collection), ELF Publishing, 2021 (EN) (ISBN 978-9948-8842-1-7)
Young Voices of Arabic (the 2022 collection), ELF Publishing, 2022 (EN) (ISBN 9789948800965)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East Region
- Louis Bacon
- Arab Spring
- Generation Z
- North East England
- Baby boomers
- Islam and secularism
- Youth in the Arab world
- Fayez al-Dwairi
- Ford Taurus (sixth generation)
