The General Coordinator of the Masarat Foundation wins a new International Award

Masarat/ Frankfurt The ZÊD Foundation announced that Dr. Saad Salloum won its prize for human solidarity. The award ceremony took place at the State Museum in Frankfurt. The event was attended by the state’s Prime Minister and members of parliament in Frankfurt, along with representatives of religions and sects in the state, and Yazidi leaders and elites from inside and outside Germany. The event was held to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Yazidi genocide on August 3, 2023. Dr. Salloum is the first person from the Islamic world to win the award, which was previously granted to high-ranking German figures such as the head of the German Social Democratic Party, the Prime Minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, and the head of Germany’s Green Party.

Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development awarded the Positive Digital Impact Certificate to Sayyid Dr. Zaid Bahr Al-Uloom in recognition of his role in promoting a moderate, hate-free digital discourse throughout 2025. A special recognition ceremony was held at Dar Al-Ilm of Imam Al-Khoei in Najaf, opening with a speech by Dr. Saad Salloum, […]

The 2025 Annual Report of the Center for Monitoring and Countering Hate Speech at Masarat Foundation revealed significant developments in Iraq’s digital landscape, documenting an ongoing struggle between the organized “engineering of hate” designed to deepen social divisions and a growing civil society and academic movement working to protect pluralism and civic space. The report […]

In a deeply moving humanitarian moment, the Yazidi community today welcomed survivor Jamila Babir Hajim, who regained her freedom after eleven years of abduction and enforced disappearance in the captivity of the terrorist group ISIS, following its attack on Sinjar District in 2014. Jamila was only a child when she was taken from her village […]

As part of efforts aimed at promoting dialogue and confronting hate speech among Iraqi communities, Saad Salloum, General Coordinator of Masarat Foundation, met with Dana Asaad, the political representative of Qubad Talabani in Baghdad and Head of the Secretariat of President Mam Jalal. The meeting discussed a number of issues of mutual interest, most notably […]

Baghdad – April 24, 2026 Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development affirmed, during its participation in the events marking the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Baghdad at Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church, its continued commitment to documenting major human tragedies, highlighting its research and organizational legacy that extends for more than a […]

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