Gebran’s Award ceremony @ Biel
December 10, 2006 in the early afternoon |EditI have been watching it since 10 am, Gebran Tueni’s Award ceremony held at Biel organized by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in partnership
with An-Nahar newspaper.
Title : Press Under Siege Conference

The place is crowded and presence is distinguished. After an impressive video remembering Gebran, Nayla Tueni held a nice speech, remembered her dad and then blasted those who are opposing the international tribunal and those who want to destroy the Cedars Revolution Gebran died for. I will sum it up later on once the show is over.

Then Thomas Friedman showed up on a giant screen and talked about Gebran and how much he admired his person and his courage and compared the Tueni Award to the Pulitzer prize assuring it will gain the same importance very quickly.

Other testimonies followed, then the shadow government was announced and its members introducted themselves to the crowd.

Ghassan Tueni just speeched and as usual a very distinguished speech.

Sanioura will be showing on the big screen as well.

I will keep you updated.