:AL Khobar – Swift Newz
The documentary book of the national initiative, “Our Ball, Our Culture,” for the great journalist Dr. Jassim Al-Yaqout,won the International Peace Books Award for the year 2022, in its sixth 
edition.
Dr. Jassim Al-Yaqout, Vice President of the Union of Arab Media Persons and a member of the Union of Arab Creators, received his award winning speech from Mr. Antonio Eminio, President of the International Peace Books Prize, for Sports, Human Rights, Peace, and Culture.
Dr. Jassim Al-Yaqout expressed his happiness for his book winning this prestigious international award, as the book succeeded in documenting the idea of the initiative’s activities and the sports, cultural and social activities that included in it to spread love and peace in society and make the idea applicable to all societies at any time and place to support and strengthen the dialogue among the peoples of the world
He explained that through the idea of the “Our Ball is Our Culture” festival, we were keen to invest in social responsibility programs, to help link segments of society in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and residents in community development to stimulate their potential in advancing 
development and living in love and peace.
He added that the book documents the objectives of the festival to contribute to community awareness and education, and to build a generation capable of representing their country and building a brilliant future for it in line with the objectives of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which paid special attention to quality of life in addition to contributing to instilling love and peace among the various segments of society and different age groups and rejecting Intolerance and racism.
He pointed out that the book documents our keenness to work in favor of solidarity and peace, and social activities, to promote the dissemination of peace and culture through programs that have contributed to instilling and spreading love and peace among members of society. And residents of different nationalities through investing football in it
ALyaqout considered the award as a new addition to the Saudi sports and cultural achievements on the world level
