During the week of 11-17 August 2008, Arab Media Watch issued a press release condemning Israel's inaction over the killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, and British media silence over the issue. This was published by Al Arab newspaper and Media Lens, and referred to by Press TV presenter Yvonne Ridley.

Press TV interviewed AMW adviser Guy Gabriel and the Guardian's assistant comments editor Joseph Harker, and AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed by The Demon, the student newspaper of De Montfort University.

Dame Ann Leslie of the Daily Mail invited Sharif and AMW director Muna Nashashibi to the launch party of her memoir "Killing my own Snakes."

Egypt's Al Ahram Weekly published a commentary by AMW adviser Dr Ghada Karmi entitled "Breaking the Gaza siege."

AMW urged its Lebanese members and advisers to write to the Times regarding an article by Alice Fordham entitled "Bombs and Botox in Beirut."

AMW publicised a request for participants for a travel documentary on Syria.

AMW liaised with every British daily broadsheet newspaper, the BBC, Channel 4, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express, ABC News, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera English, the Arab Media Centre at Westminster University, the British Red Cross, the author of a forthcoming book on Sudan, and the Lebanese, Palestinian, Sudanese and Syrian embassies.

International Federation of Journalists
16 August 2008

In a meeting this week in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan region, Iraqi journalists' unions gave their backing to a new campaign in defence of journalists' rights despite the heavy toll of war over the past five years that has claimed more than 280 media lives.

14 August 2008

A travel documentary in Syria is being produced which will be aired on the "Travel" channel, and will focus mainly on culture and everyday lives of Syrians. The producers are looking for Syrians who speak fluent English, and who are willing to be in front of the camera, show Wright their favorite parts of their town and their favourite hang outs, and share a few activities.

During the week of 4-10 August 2008, the Middle East correspondent for a British national daily broadsheet responded positively to an email from AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi regarding an article about Hebron, and the Daily Mail responded positively to AMW adviser Chris Doyle's objections to the uses of the term 'Arab' in an article entitled "Arab sends his Lamborghini for an oil check - 6,500 miles by air from Qatar to London."

Al Jazeera English requested an interview with Nashashibi, who was interviewed on Press TV with the deputy business editor of the Sunday Express about such issues as Iraqi reconstruction and the effects of the US presidential elections on the Arab world.

AMW had a meeting with the Independent, and the Guardian expressed an interest in publishing an article by Nashashibi.

AMW liaised with every British national daily broadsheet, the BBC, Mail on Sunday, Reuters, Bloomberg, New Statesman, Metro, ABC News, Asharq Al Awsat, Arab News Broadcasting, Press TV, Verso Books, Human Rights Watch, Palestinian filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, the author of a forthcoming book on Sudan, and the Palestinian and Sudanese embassies.

8 August 2008
Redress Newsblog

Friends of Mohammed Omer have reminded the Israeli ambassador, Ron Prosor, that they are still waiting after five weeks for an explanation of the vicious assault by Israeli security officers on the award-winning journalist as he returned home to his family in Gaza. Omer had been visiting European capitals after winning the Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism in war, which was presented to him in London.

6 August 2008

Reporters Without Borders welcomes yesterday's reopening of the Voice of the People, a Gaza City radio station operated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

4 August 2008

US military authorities should present charges against a Reuters cameraman detained since last Tuesday, or they should release him immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.