Last update - 00:00 03/10/2007
Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar wins Mideast journalism award
By Haaretz Service
Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar has won the annual Eliav-Sartawi award for Middle Eastern journalism, awarded by Search for Common Ground, an international conflict transformation organization.
Eldar receives the prize jointly with Salameh Nematt, a Jordanian journalist, for their "Reaching Across the Divide" series, which features correspondence between the two on Middle Eastern issues.
"Reaching Across the Divide" is comprised of ten separate articles, five by Eldar and five by Nematt. The series was published in Haaretz, the Palestinian paper Al-Quds and the Baltimore Sun. (Click here to read the entire correspondence.)
Eldar is a senior political correspondent and member of the Haaretz editorial board. Nematt is a former Washington bureau chief for the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper and a regular guest on television and radio talk shows.
The Common Ground Awards were created in 1998 to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, community building, and peace-building. This year's awards will be presented in New York on November 7.
The recipients of the 2007 journalism awards also include Bassam Aramin, who wrote, "A Plea for Peace from a Bereaved Palestinian Father," originally published in The Jewish Daily Forward, and Gershon Baskin, who wrote, "When Will It All End," originally published in the Jerusalem Post.
Haaretz.com blogger Bradley Burston was last year's recipient of the Search for Common Ground prize for his blog "Let their people go".