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The MENA shortlists at Cannes Lions 2025

A list of all the shortlisted campaigns from the MENA region for Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2025.

The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity is in full swing for its 2025 iteration, with thousands of creatives and advertising flocking to the city’s Palais des Festivals et des Congrès for a week of celebrating creativity within the advertising industry.

The Middle East has shown up in full force, with strong entries to the Festival’s broad range of categories.

43 campaigns from regional shops have made it to the shortlists across 17 categories. Here’s a breakdown of the campaigns up for a chance of walking away with a metal cat:
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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.