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PRCA MENA Young Lions PR Competition 2025 shortlist revealed

The shortlist for the PRCA MENA Young Lions PR Competition 2025 has been announced featuring six finalists.

PR Young LionsFrom top left: BPG Group – Rua Youssef & Rayana El Masri; Burson – Raneem Saleeh & Youssef Yammine; Cosmopole Consultancy – Nithin Narayanan & Meena Shahin; Gambit Communications – Tala Maass & Hana Sabri; Seven Media – Neimat ElKarib & Tala Abu Eid; The Romans – Cham Alatrach & Katie Bell-Wright

PRCA MENA has revealed the six teams that have made it onto the shortlist for the Cannes Young Lions PR Competition.

Last week 23 teams, each consisting of two PR professionals from the region, aged 30 or under, had a pressing 24-hours to respond to a brief set by this year’s humanitarian partner, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

The brief challenged participants to develop a campaign that would raise awareness, increase downloads and drive donations for UNHCR’s Refugee Zakat Fund Mobile App—an innovative platform designed to make Zakat giving more accessible, transparent, and impactful. The brief stated, “our challenge remains increasing awareness of our RZF app, downloads and number


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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.