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  • Name: Waseem Akram Al-Sakhla
  • Program: Misr El Khair Fellowship for “Sustainable Local Development Practitioner”
  • Work Place: Consultant in a number of development associations and institutions
  • Country: Syria
  • Graduation Year: 2023
  • Bio:

    An activist and blogger on Syrian public affairs, he holds a master’s degree in Islamic-Christian relations from Saint Joseph University in Beirut with a very honorable degree, a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Damascus, and a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Information at the University of Damascus.

    A graduate of the Academy of Media and Digital Literacy at the Lebanese American University (2017) and a graduate of the Leaders Program for Religious Understanding and the Arab Activism Support Program, he holds a diploma in Palestinian Studies from the Academy of Refugee Studies in the United Kingdom (2021).< /p>

    Fellow at the Kayside Center for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue 2023, recipient of the Misr El Kheir Foundation Fellowship 2023.

    Founder and coordinator of the Piano Project (Christian-Islamic meetings in Syria), a founding member of a number of civil and community entities in Syria, such as the A. Foundation. Sayyar, formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the Syrian Family Planning Association and the Masahat Foundation for Community Development, has been a member of the Graduate Advisory Board of the Youth Peer Network in Syria since 2019.

    I work as an independent journalist, former editor-in-chief, founder of the Public Affairs Blog - Syria, and a member of the Civil Society Support Room in the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy to Syria.

    I won a number of awards, including: first winner of the Best Young Media Competition (Creativity Project in 2010), member of the team that won first place in the Art of Debating Competition for university students in 2011, and the award for the ten most distinguished youth in Syria in the category Volunteer leadership and humanitarian work in 2018.