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The first edition of the prize will award journalistic pieces which thoroughly, accurately and ethically depict the situation and challenges facing adolescents throughout the region.
The creation of the William Hill sports book of the year award encouraged a raising of sights, and the 25th edition of the prize has just been won by the horse racing journalist Jamie Reid for Doped (Racing Post), a reconstruction of the series of crimes committed in the early 1960s by a group of colourful characters who drugged horses to make them lose races.
The first edition of the prize will only consider entries in Arabic, and the award ceremony will take place at UNICEF's fourth Arab Media Forum in November.
This is the winner of the May edition of the prize.
Shoot the Savage by LM Latham is available from Amazon This is the winner of the June edition of the prize.
Another release made desirable by its exclusive distribution at a high-scoring tournament, the disk inside the Bangai-O Prize Edition for Dreamcast packaging contains a game identical to the widely available standard release.
It was the inaugural edition of this prize, co-sponsored by MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) and Rabobank, one of the largest banks in the world that caters specifically to food and agribusiness clients.
PS Readers may be interested in the 2007 edition of these prizes.
