Honoring the winners of the 2022 “This is My Story” competition

Damascus (ST) – On Monday, Watan Document Foundation and the National Union of Syrian Students honored, in the auditorium of Damascus University, the winners of “This is my Story” competition for the year 2022.

The number of winners reached 11, distributed among the categories of the stories; the “War on Syria” category, the “Student Memoirs and the Narrative of Events” category, the “Culture Heritage” category, and “Challenge and Success” category.

The winners’ stories that reached the finalist will be published in a book entitled “This is My Story 2022”.

In her speech, Dr. Buthaina Shaaban, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Watan Document Foundation , said: “For the fourth year in a row, we meet in ‘This is my Story’ award ceremony, where stories of steadfastness and valor shake us to our depth …stories that bear the highest meanings of giving and love for homelands.”

Dr. Shaaban commended the Foundation’s partnership for this year with the National Union of Syrian Students, and confirmed that it was a rich experience in all its details, contributions, and goals. She expressed her hope to continue this partnership in various aspects for the benefit of our students and universities and the Watan Document Foundation.

For her part, the President of the National Union of Syrian Students, Darine Suleiman, congratulated the winners who joined the Watan Document family. She confirmed that the union worked with all the spirit of partnership and integration with the partners in the Watan Document Foundation to translate the goals and objectives and disseminate them among the students and youth segment throughout the Syrian universities and institutes.

A number of the winners expressed their thanks and appreciation to those in charge of the competition.

The ceremony included a short film about the stages of preparation for the competition in the governorates, a film that included interviews with the winners, and lyrical and musical performances titled “Quintet of the Spirit of the East” led by Maestro Adnan Fathallah. As well as offering a special award to a Syrian-Assyrian family that stood firm during the war and was a role model in defending the homeland and rooting in its land.

Watan Document Foundation launched this competition for the first time in the summer of 2019 that is a non-governmental and non-profit organization concerned with knowledge documentation and oral history.

Najla Khoury