Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as Shawkan, will be awarded United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) for year 2018.
The award was established in 1997 by United Nations’ cultural body UNESCO’s in honour of Colombian journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza.
It honours person, organization or institution for their outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of freedom of press anywhere in the world, especially achieved in face of danger.
Guillermo Cano Isaza was a Colombian journalist was assassinated on 17 December 1986 in front of the offices of his newspaper, El Espectador in Bogota because of his publishment on Colombian internal issues.