Four journalists from Belgium, Slovenia, Israel and Turkey won the Second Edition of the “Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue.” The winners were selected, by an International Jury, among seventy-six candidates who participated in the competition from all over the 37 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region. The four winners will receive a trophy and an award of 5000 Euros for each during a bestowing ceremony.

The topics of this year winning articles were quite diverse and thus broaden the readers' horizons about the current situation of cultural dialogue in the region. Some of the articles illustrate successful models and projects in the dialogue field, and so enhance mutual understanding and respect. Other articles, however, evoke warning conditions of some areas in the Euro-Med region and, as a result, plead for an immediate start of Dialogue between conflicting parties.

In her series of articles"Turkish Artists without Borders", published in Turkish Daily Newspaper, Vercihan Ziflioglu from Turkey, illustrates successful projects of musicians, web artists and photographers whose aim is to promote dialogue between diverse cultures in Anatolia. The journalist assures that while politics fail to resolve ethnic conflicts, Arts remain a powerful tool for dialogue but also for bridge-building between different communities.

On the same line, Jamila Zekhnini from Belgium, lends recognition to women who promote an alternative image of their religion in her series of articles "MusulWomen" , published in Agenda Interculturel. The journalist praises a new movement of Muslim women who are standing for their rights by explaining that Islam, and contrary to common perceptions, can be in favour of gender equality.

In his article "Why wait for another massacre ?", published in Dnevnik Newspaper, Uros Skerl from Slovenia, deeply explores the worrying situation of the Bosniaks, this precarious population living in the neighbourhood of the European Union. Despite the end of Bosnian War in 1995, the article alerts the international community of a latent conflict that may explode between Serbs and Bosniaks.

Gideon Levy from Israel, tackles a sensitive issue in his article "The Children of 5767", published in Haaretz. While at the date of its publishing Israelis were celebrating the Jewish New Year, the article reviews different stories of Palestinian children who got killed by the Israeli Defence Forces during the Jewish year 5767 (September 2006 - September 2007 Gregorian calendar). The article is not only written in a very courageous way, but also emphasizes a question rarely covered by the Israeli Media.

Furthermore, two journalists have received a honorary mention from the jury; Nadia Al Awady from Egypt, for her article "Inside the Palestinian resistance Movements", published in Islam Online, and Valentino Stefano from Italy, for his article "Cosmopolitan Pyla: Where Cyprus is already re-unified", published in Il Venerdi.

The Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue was first established in 2006 by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures and the International Federation of Journalists to encourage reporting on citizens, in the European and Mediterranean space, living together in culturally diversified societies.