Faisal Award To Nasseef

Mecca: Dr. Abdullah Omar Nassif, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, has won this year’s King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam. The prize in Arabic literature was shared by Ahmad Mahmood Najeeb, Abd Attaway Yousuf Ahmad (both Egyptians) and Ali Abdul Qader al-Sigilli of Morocco. The prizes amounting to $ 2.36 million will be distributed in May at a colorful ceremony in Riyadh. The committee “unanimously resolved” to award the prize to Dr. Nassif in appreciation of his services to Islam and Muslims. “Long before he assumed his present functions… Dr. Nassif had a distinguished record as a youth leader and an Islamic conference convener,” the committee said. At the head of the League, Dr. Nassif supervised the implementation of projects for the alleviation of poverty, ignorance and disease among the Muslims worldwide. (Muslim World News April 8).