tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56198562011-10-13T08:06:02.108+02:00Arab Media ForumAn online stage for media-related issues, views and news managed by a believer in the power of media.YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-82403825240483000872011-10-12T09:33:00.000+02:002011-10-12T09:33:07.169+02:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-2337097654676807992007-05-30T09:20:00.000+03:002007-05-30T16:46:49.328+03:00New Media: New OpportunitiesRead on Global Media Journal: New Media, New Opportunities: the Role of the Internet in Empowering NGOs in the Arab World (Arabic)www.aucegypt.edu/academic/gmj/06F/Unrefreed_yomna.htmlYMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-25823253373468203242007-02-23T18:35:00.000+02:002007-02-23T18:37:04.272+02:00An image from 'Control Room', a worth-watching documentary on Al-Jazeera news channelYMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1074267312535347522004-01-16T17:33:00.000+02:002005-09-21T11:54:29.906+03:00YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1074207736198165612004-01-16T00:59:00.000+02:002005-09-21T11:55:38.523+03:00US-Arab Publics: Minding the GapWith a Qatari plan to launch an English-language satellite television in mid 2004 and a US project of an Arabic-language television network targeting the Middle East end of the year, the Arab and American publics might be experiencing another war, but this time to win their hearts and minds.The ‘Information War’, as some media experts like to call it, comes in response to augmented concerns of YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1060069684100222142003-08-05T10:48:00.000+03:002005-09-21T11:57:02.756+03:00Online Opposition Arab opposition uses net to skirt censorship An on-line Libyan opposition newsletter repeatedly calls for the overthrow of Qadhafi's regime, another on-line paper fiercely attacks the Saudi royal family, and a third reveals the Tunisian government's repressive practice. Propagating their political views while circumventing government intervention, Arab opposition groups began launching YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1060040413632956742003-08-05T02:40:00.000+03:002005-09-21T11:58:00.990+03:00Dreams need planning to come true When the first privately owned Arab satellite television, ART, experienced serious financial problems and had to sack dozens of its Italy-based staff few years ago, some media analysts expected that Arab businessmen would be reluctant to venture into similar visual media projects. Yet, a couple of Saudi business tycoons who are connected to the Saudi royal familyYMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1059514606390838592003-07-30T00:36:00.000+03:002005-09-21T11:59:09.283+03:00YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1059477184605927372003-07-29T14:13:00.000+03:002005-09-21T11:59:59.396+03:00Press Freedom: Different Approaches, One CauseViolating people’s rights of having a free press has not always been a government’s practice. According to some media experts, economic, political and professional considerations might escalate these violations and impede the free flow of information.Discussing the issue of ‘Press Freedom” came in the seventh session of a six-week workshop organized YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1059423920324024142003-07-28T23:25:00.000+03:002005-09-21T12:00:59.040+03:00YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1059423655688253482003-07-28T23:20:00.000+03:002003-07-28T23:20:55.710+03:00Bridging the GapWhen the BBC played the Azan in the background of a documentary on violence, Muslims were offended although a British reporter of Middle East Affairs said it was unpremeditated. But when it stopped referring to Israel’s planned killings of Palestinians as ‘assassinations’ and started using ‘targeted killings’ instead, it was inevitable to call it intentional misreporting of Arab affairs.
Such YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619856.post-1059421256438807372003-07-28T22:40:00.000+03:002005-09-21T11:58:29.300+03:00Searching for Common Values in Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict When the New York Times reported the killing of a 10 months old Israeli baby girl and a four months old Palestinian baby girl in two separate stories earlier this year, the Palestinian Media Watch used them as evidences of what it called the US media pro-Israeli coverage of the conflict.The Palestinian Media Watch analysed the YMKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12382104621947698993noreply@blogger.com1