DUBAI:
A Palestinian primary school teacher has
beaten about 8000 applicant from world wide and won $ 1 million prize for
teaching excellence who encourages students to renounce violence.
Hanan al-Hroub, who
teaches in the West Bank, was awarded the second annual Global Teacher Prize
during a ceremony on Sunday evening in the Middle Eastern city of Dubai, United
Arab Emirates.
Many in the audience
was amaze to know that the plastinaian lady name was announced, erupted with
chants of “Palestine”.
Many the actresses and
polical personal was on the ceremony, Ahead of the prize being awarded, Pope
Francis talked about the importance of education in a video message to the
audience in Dubai while Hollywood actors Salma Hayek and Matthew McConaughey
took to the stage to deliver brief messages of their own.
The inaugural prize
last year went to Nancie Atwell, an English teacher from Maine
