Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World, 29-30 September 2004 Thank you very much. I am actually very proud to talk after Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is one of those people who inspired our thoughts when we were students--political science students at Cairo …
Read More »Thoughts on Arab Satellite Television, Pan-Arabism, and Freedom of Expression
Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World, 29-30 September 2004 Good morning everybody. Let me start by expressing my gratitude at being invited to this event and also for the very strong start that we had last night, which makes my job easier this …
Read More »Keynote Address – The Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World
The Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World, 29-30 September 2004 What I would like to do today is put the issue of the media in some perspective, both analytical and historical. Then I will put some thoughts on the table about the extent …
Read More »Between Theory and Practice: A Report on the Cambridge Arab Media Project’s Conference on “The Media and Political Change in the Arab World”
Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK 28-30 September 2004 Does transnational broadcasting media impact political change in the Arab world, and if so, in what way and to what extent? This question lies at the heart of the ongoing discourse about Arab satellites and their role in opening and defining …
Read More »Conference Report: International Academy for Media Science (IAMS) “Arab Satellites in a Changing World”
Movenpick Hotel 22 - 24 June 2004 Cairo, Egypt Though thousands of words are spoken and written each year about Arab satellites, scholars have rarely ventured into the means of analyzing their conceptual structures to ask the stakeholders about their views on the pressing socio-economic and political issues. Moreover, while …
Read More »Speeches to the Opening Session of The Arab Media Summit
Keynote speeches were made at the opening session of the Arab Media Summit in Dubai, October 7, 2003, by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, crown prince of Dubai and minister of defense of the United Arab Emirates, by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, by UAE information minister Sheikh Abdullah bin …
Read More »Arabsats? What Arabsats? The Arab Media Summit and the Mystery of the Missing Media.
Dubai has clearly decided to make itself the media hub of the Arab World. There is the ever-expanding Dubai Media City. There is the brand-new International Media Production Zone—already dubbed "Dollywood" by the local press. And there is the annual Arab Media Summit, which brought together journalists from the regional …
Read More »News World Conference, Dublin November 19-21, 2002
The "Countdown to Conflict" session that opened the News World 2002 conference began calmly enough, with Martin Howard, director general of corporate communications for the UK Ministry of Defense, explaining his efforts to get British officers to understand that "part of their duty is to explain" military operations to the …
Read More »Countdown to Conflict
The following is the transcript of a panel discussion that took place on November 19, 2002 at News World's annual conference. With military action looming in Iraq, and after a year of conflict in Afghanistan, a debate about the rights and responsibilities of journalists in conflict zones. How is the …
Read More »AUSACE 2001: Economy of Media in the New Middle East
The sixth annual conference of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE) took place in Atlanta, Georgia, October 31 to November 3, 2001. The conference was hosted by Georgia State University and was co-sponsored by AUSACE; the Department of Communication, GSU; the Center for International Media Education; and the Middle …
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