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Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar. (Pierre Terdjman) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 23:43 03/10/2007 Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar wins Mideast journalism award By Haaretz Service tags: Akiva Eldar  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.) Advertisement 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". Bookmark to del.icio.us Preface to peace? The U.S. has rejected Abbas' demand for a schedule for the final-status agreement. Crowd control The IFA has banned Beitar Jerusalem fans from two home games for booing Rabin.   1.   Good news - the Middle East Conflict is solved 12:28  |  Ehud 03/10/07   2.   Award - to Ehud 12:39  |  Lou 03/10/07   3.   NOW LET HIM RUN FOR ABU-MAZEN`S POSITION.HE`LL BE MORE EFFECTIVE) 12:43  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 03/10/07   4.   Amira Hass has also won a prize.From Malaysia 12:50  |  Absolute Sweden 03/10/07   5.   Akiva Eldar 13:00  |  Jan van Mil 03/10/07   6.   "Akiva Eldar wins Mideast journalism award." 13:08  |  ha,ha,ha 03/10/07   7.   Congratulations, Mr. Eldar! 13:30  |  Admiring reader 03/10/07   8.   Akiva Eldar 13:43  |  Witness 03/10/07   9.   nice Arabic awards and Korans in background 13:43  |  moish 03/10/07   10.   Akiva Eldar 14:18  |  Ahad Aham 03/10/07   11.   Aldar`s award for political Activism not Journalism 14:23  |  Dan Diker 03/10/07   12.   Congratulation to Eldar 14:54  |  Abu Firas AL Qudsi 03/10/07   13.   Congratulations Akiva Eldar and Salameh Nematt 15:04  |  Smadar 03/10/07   14.   Bravo Akiva 18:00  |  Starlight 03/10/07   15.   Suprise! Suprise! 18:19  |  Zvi 03/10/07   16.   Well-deserved award 18:24  |  David 03/10/07   17.   Not only from Malaysia, Absolute Sweden # 4 20:25  |  Fortuna Benmayor 03/10/07   18.   You want a journalistic Mid East prize? The recipe: Be one sided! 21:29  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/10/07   19.   The fruits of the Peace Process 21:48  |  Jake 03/10/07   20.   Dan Diker, Akiva Eldar is a good journalist? 21:57  |  Jake 03/10/07   21.   akiva eldar went to interview arafat the day after he massacred 22:52  |  harzion 03/10/07   22.   Akiva Eldar 00:06  |  ishmael ishmael 04/10/07   23.   WELL DONE, Mr A K I V A E L D A R,, the truth pays..... 00:08  |  Fred 04/10/07   24.   CONGRATULATIONS Mr Akiva Eldar 00:12  |  Becky 04/10/07   25.   #9 moish, being childish will help PEACE. 00:18  |  Arik 04/10/07   26.   #11. If that is the case then Akiva is doing a good job 00:25  |  Chaim ben B 04/10/07   27.   #18.Ungenuine Tosefta??, IF only 00:33  |  Moshe 04/10/07   28.   #18 You sound very "brainy" when you have only insults to post 01:28  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/10/07   29.   The last one was meant for #27 02:50  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/10/07   30.   WELL DONE, Mr A K I V A E L D A R,, deception pays..... 03:24  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/10/07   31.   A Big Joke 07:06  |  Tod Zuckerman 09/11/07

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