El reputado caricaturista sirio Ali Farzat, cuyas ilustraciones satíricas publicadas en todo el mundo son claras denuncias de la corrupción y el poder dictatorial que oprimen al país, ha recibido el galardón Gebran Tueni Award 2012, premio que la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA) concede cada año para homenajear a una figura excepcional del mundo mediático árabe.

Renowned Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat, whose satirical drawings targeting corruption and lampooning dictators have been published worldwide, has been awarded the 2012 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that honours an outstanding individual from the news media in the Arab region.

Michel Hajji Georgiou, a senior political analyst at the French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour in Lebanon, has been awarded the 2007 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize from the World Association of Newspapers that honours an editor or publisher in the Arab region.

Ibrahim Essa, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Dustour, has been awarded the 2008 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize from the World Association of Newspapers that honours an editor or publisher in the Arab region.