Extracts from a discussion held with mass communications students and faculty at the Adham Center for Television Journalism on March 6, 2000, on the occasion of Gulf DTH/Showtime President and CEO Peter Einstein's appointment as an Associate (honorary faculty member) of the Adham Center. Peter Einstein: Egypt and the Middle East …

Columbia University's prestigious Middle East Institute, with an assist from Columbia's equally prestigious School of Journalism, was the host to a curious but stimulating conference that was as ambiguous in its apparent direction as it was ambiguous in title: "Opening the Channels: Columbia Forum on Television and Society in the …

"We want to go out of l999 with a smile, so we will celebrate comedy and open with a tribute to comedians throughout the 20th century at the 23rd Cairo International Film Festival, to be held from Nov. 24-Dec. 7," said Hussein Fahmy, president of Cairo Fest, speaking from the …

The Fifth Cairo International TV and Radio Market and Festival (CAMAR TV '99), held from July 11-15 at the sprawling Cairo Convention Center, presented a world in itself of the growing Middle Eastern broadcasting and radio industry. The business of television and radio coincided with the presentation of more than …

"Asia: Information Poor to Information Rich: Strategies for the 21st Century" For the first time in its 26-year history, the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) held its annual conference in South Asia in mid-year. A major regional resource center based in Singapore and funded largely by governments, inter-government …

EDTV to Launch Four New Free-to-Air Channels, New Arabsat Captures Middle East Hotbird Status The big story from the 1999 Dubai Cable and Satellite Show was Arabsat 3A, which was successfully launched February 27, 1999, and which will be co-located with its existing sister craft. But the main news from the …

Organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable on Communication and the Med Media Jemstone Network By TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin and Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat The 10th MacBride Roundtable on Communication, organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable …

An International Seminar of Article 19, The International Centre Against Censorship The International Centre Against Censorship (Article 19) organized an international seminar on broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa held February 20-21, 1999 in Cairo. Article 19's name comes from Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of …

A report of the Strategic Planning Session held November 20, 1998 at the Sugarloaf Conference Center of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania By conference organizer George Gerbner  Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications, Temple University On November 20, 1998, Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania and Temple University sponsored a strategic planning session for an international …

The Third Annual Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) The third annual conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) was held in Helnan Shepheard Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, September 7-10, 1998. The conference was hosted by the American University in Cairo and co-sponsored by Georgia …