Gandhi Peace Award Winner for 2020: Dr. Zaher Sahloul
by Abdul Ghani Desai
Promoting Enduring Peace organization announced in a press release on Friday, March 28, 2020 that Dr. Zaher Sahloul is the winner of its Gandhi Peace Award for 2020.
The Gandhi Peace Award has been awarded to peace heroes such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Tom Goldtooth, Omar Barghouti, Ralph Nader and Jackson Browne.
Stanley Heller, PEP Administrator said, “The Board of PEP decided that our best contribution this year would be to give the prize in hopes it would help reorient the peace movement and the Left on an issue where many progressives have gone astray.”
“Most have ignored the agency of Syrians and their efforts for a democratic uprising, one that has been met by incredible violence and influenced badly by foreign powers, but which still remains active whether hidden in Deraa and Idlib or alive among refugees around the world. Our award this year is to the medical workers and rescuers of Syria,” he added.
Dr. Zaher Sahloul. He’s past president of the Syrian-American Medical Society which has built and rebuilt hospitals in Syria, in recent years underground or in caves. He’s now president of Medglobal which helps not just in Syria but in 14 countries. He’s a pulmonary specialist in Chicago where he’s currently helping treat patients with the virus.”
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