Search for Common Ground (SFCG) requests submissions for the annual Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle Eastern Journalism competition to recognize and encourage journalism that contributes to better understanding between people and to maintaining political dialogue in the Middle East.

Each article submitted for consideration will be reviewed by a panel of international judges. Each winner will be invited to Jerusalem in the Fall of 2008 for an award ceremony at the International YMCA, Jerusalem and will receive a monetary prize of $1,000 (USD).

Awards will be offered for articles originally published in either Arabic, Hebrew, or English. The articles must have been published between May 1st, 2007 and July 1st, 2008 in a recognized newspaper, magazine, web-publication or other periodical. Each individual applicant is invited to submit one article for consideration. Media outlets and press clubs may nominate up to three articles for consideration.

For more information, visit http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/sfcg_cgawards_me.html