Moroccan scholar Younes El Khamlichi wins Qatar Award for Civilizational Dialogue

Dr. Younes El Khamlichi from Morocco has won the third prize of the Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations, organized by the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Qatar University, under the theme «Science Dialogue: Towards a Civilizational Framework for Educational System Integration».

According to the organizers, this recognition followed a rigorous evaluation process by local and international scientific judging committees, based on specific criteria that focused on originality, content quality, and depth of analysis.

The second prize was awarded to Dr. Medhat Maher from Egypt for his work titled «Dialogue of Knowledge and Cultures and the Construction of Social Sciences». However, the scientific committee and the external jury unanimously agreed to withhold the first prize due to the lack of research that met the criteria of excellence worthy of the award's value and prestige, both symbolically and financially.

In a speech on the occasion, Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, Dean of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University, praised the efforts made by the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in supporting the Qatar International Award for Dialogue of Civilizations. He pointed out that working with this entity is an extension of a long partnership since the Committee decided that the topic of civilizational dialogue should be studied in universities and researched, as this partnership has yielded many achievements.

Al-Ansari praised the role the award plays in promoting the values of civilizational dialogue, noting the importance of ongoing cooperation between the College of Sharia and the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The course was designed to achieve a set of pivotal objectives, including developing education as a means of human rapprochement without religious or ethnic categorizations, exploring the integration of sciences and knowledge, and working on its application in educational curricula.