Video clips of 2008 AMW fundraising dinner

Welcome speech by AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi.

Nashashibi reads out a written message of support by Jonathan Steele, the multi-award-winning Guardian columnist and correspondent.

Stephen Cole, main news anchor for Al Jazeera English in London.

David Gardner, award-winning chief leader writer and associate editor at the Financial Times.

Aron Kader, award-winning Arab-American comedian.

AMW presenting its 2008 award for excellence in journalism to renowned British-Somali reporter Rageh Omaar, who presents Witness on Al Jazeera English, is a columnist for the New Statesman, and a former BBC correspondent.

Richard Beeston, The Times foreign editor .