The annual Salvos Prelorentzos Peace Award ceremony is on Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 in City Hall.
This year they are honouring a married couple: Soraya Zaki Hafez and Richard Awid. Soraya is President of the Edmonton Chapter of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women which does much inter/multi faith outreach and programming. She was born in in Egypt. In 1983, she developed curriculum for the Arabic-English program in Edmonton Public Schools, and taught Arabic for EPS and at the U of A. She is a member of the Arab/Jewish Women’s Peace Coalition and one of the founders of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities. She was very involved in moving Al Rashid, Canada’s oldest mosque, to Fort Edmonton, including raising $75,000 towards this.
Richard is a retired teacher, author of “Through the eyes of the son: A factual history about Canadian Arabs” for the Arabic Language Advisory Council Society of Edmonton.
He is a volunteer guide at the mosque at Fort Edmonton, and an amateur historian. He is on the boards of the Phoenix Multifaith Society and the Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation.
Cecily Mills will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a long-time human rights advocate in Edmonton and globally, is a familiar face at many peace- related events, a writer of articles about human rights, and regularly travels to other countries and reports back on her observations.
Edmonton Interfaith Centre
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780 413 6159 inZaith@shaw.ca
www.edminterfaithcentre.ca
