--- title: Entry Deadline Extension Announced for Middle East & North Africa Stevie® Awards description: By popular demand, the final entry deadline has been extended through February 24th in the 2021 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hubfs/TW-1.gif --- [![stevie-awards-full-logo](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stevie%20Awards%20Blog%20Theme%20Files/stevie-awards-full-logo.png?width=347&height=70&name=stevie-awards-full-logo.png "stevie-awards-full-logo")](http://stevieawards.com) Click to View Posts by Stevie® Awards Categories # Entry Deadline Extension Announced for Middle East & North Africa Stevie® Awards Posted by [Maggie Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/author/maggie-gallagher) on Wed, Feb 03, 2021 @ 04:38 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) By popular demand, the Stevie Awards have announced a general entry deadline extension for Middle East & North Africa Stevie ® Awards sponsored by [RAK Chamber, UAE](http://rakchamber.ae/). Entries will now be accepted through February 24. Details are available at [http://MENA.StevieAwards.com](http://MENA.StevieAwards.com). The Middle East Stevie & North Africa Awards are the region’s only awards to recognize innovation in all its forms through the workplace. The awards are open to all organizations in 17 nations in the MENA region: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. ![TW-1](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/TW-1.gif?width=1440&name=TW-1.gif) All individuals and organizations - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - may submit any number of nominations to any number of the categories. **There are no entry fees in this awards program.** Organizations may submit as many nominations as they’d like, without cost. Instead, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will pay a “winners fee” for each successful nomination. Winners of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards in the competition will be announced on March 24, 2021, and celebrated during a gala event in Ras Al Khaimah at the Waldorf Astoria on May 15. There are two new category groups for 2021. [The COVID-19 Response](https://stevieawards.com/mena/covid-19-response-categories) categories will recognize the contributions of individuals, groups, and organizations that have worked valiantly over the past months to keep us safe, healthy, employed, and informed. 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