Here is an interesting initiative, the last Sunday of the month of September marks the Underwater yearly Cleanup day, an initiative by the HSBC and the National Institute for Scuba Diving in Lebanon (NISD) that has been taking place for the past 7 years. The idea is to get divers volunteering to cleanup the underwater of Lebanon’s sea, according to NISD’s website, 100 Lebanese divers participated in this event, and the number is expected to double this year. Take a look, it’s interesting!
The MENA Cristal Awards will be held between 26 – 30 January 2009, at Mzaar 2000, Lebanon.
The MENA Cristal Awards had been created in 2005 with the objective to introduce a new and ambitious competition in all the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. This comes as the Middle East & North Africa version of the Méribel Ad Festival, which target is European countries and held yearly in the French Alps.
This new competition is the first ever to bring together all the countries of the region. The winners receive the famous « Cristal », the hallmark of the Méribel Ad Festival. The event company « 2C Associes » produces and organizes the MENA Cristal Awards and the Méribel Ad Festival.
The “Cristal” reward the best creations of the year in each type of Media: film, radio, outdoor, magazine, press, marketing, cyber, integrated and media strategy. They are awarded by mixed juries, made up of both agency creatives and clients. The competitions draws to a close the advertising creative year and prefigures the main international awards.
