Following are the names of the twenty winning authors:

Ahmed Sayed Hussein Mohamed
Ismail Al-Nagar
Amir Abu Al-Yazed Moady
Ingy Abbas Abul Ezz
Belal Abdalla Saber Abdel Moneim
Doaa Atef Al-Atar
Diana Youssef
Synthia Farahat
Shady Mohamed Al-Rakhawy
Shehab Abdel Megid Wageh
Mohamed Al-Shemy
Mohamed Saad Mohamed
Mohamed Maher
Mohamed Magdy Mohamed Ahmed Abu Zeid
Moatz Mohamed Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Al-Masry
Mariam Mourad
Nany Mohamed
Hany Mohamed Al-Khayat
Hind Hassan
Walid Zamel Zoghir

FNF and the Egyptian Union for Liberal Youth (EULY) send a warm word of congratulation to the winners and also wishe to thank all the participants in this competition for their valuable contribution. The reward ceremony on June 16, 2009 will see also the launching of the book with the best essays. We intend to invite all the prize winners and their friends. All others interested in liberal discourse should also be at the Sawy Cultural Center in Zamalek on that evening.

"We are thrilled by the quality of some of the texts", said FNF’s Regional Director Dr. Ronald Meinardus. "The essays give us a good understanding of the thoughts and the dreams of the liberal Egyptian youth", he added.

FNF intends to translate the book into English for distribution among non-Arabic speaking readers. The Foundation and EULY are cooperating in this project with the daily newspaper El Masry El Youm and Radio Horytna as media partners. For more information visit: www.librali.net.