During the week of 14-20 April 2008, Arab Media Watch met with Al Jazeera English, the BBC, Sky News, the Guardian, Independent, Daily Star, Al Hayat, Kuwait's Awan newspaper and the Qatari Embassy.

Al Hayat published an article about the dinner organised by AMW for Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, and Arfan Nizam Eldin praised AMW in his column in the newspaper.

AMW helped a postgraduate media student at Goldsmiths University with his dissertation on "Al Jazeera vs Al Hurra," and a media student at Gloucestershire University requested an interview with AMW for his dissertation "Alan Johnston: How the Reporter Became the Story."

AMW liaised with the BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Economist, Al Jazeera English, ABC News, Arab News Broadcasting, Al Sahafa, a media lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Kuwait's Awan newspaper, Human Rights Watch, and the Qatari and Sudanese embassies.

During the week of 7-13 April 2008, Arab Media Watch organised a dinner for Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, and met with the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Al Hayat, Al Sahafa, and the Qatari, Moroccan and Syrian embassies. Also, AMW adviser Tahrir Swift met with award-winning Iraqi journalist Dahr Jamail, and chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi and adviser Chris Doyle attended the Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade.

Nashashibi was interviewed by Polish newspaper Dziennik about an online initiative by Jordan's Queen Rania to tackle anti-Arab stereotyping.

A journalism student at Misr International University in Egypt requested AMW's help with his graduation project, which includes topics such as the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, press freedoms in the West and the Arab world, the new Arab League charter on satellite TV, and Egyptian bloggers.

The directors of the documentary Meeting Resistance, which AMW aired at the Frontline Club, thanked AMW for doing so, saying "it was a great turnout." The producer also emailed AMW to say: "The screening was great...and you pulled in an excellent audience. Well done! Thanks so much for putting this event together, and I look forward to arranging more screenings with you in the future." Furthermore, the media councillor at the Sudanese Embassy wrote a review of the screening, which was published in Sudan's Alray Alaam newspaper. He wrote: "I would like to end by saluting Arab Media Watch...Arab Media Watch has been monitoring all that the British media is publishing, showing or broadcasting in its quest to ensure objective coverage of Arab issues...this organisation has been emphasising what is admirable in free democracies and upholding its merits, but at the same time exposing the limitations and restrictions it is suffering, whether obvious or concealed."

AMW liaised with the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera English, the Independent, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Mirror, the Guardian, the Observer, the Sun, the Times, ABC News, Arab News Broadcasting, Al Hiwar TV, The Arab magazine, the Middle East in London magazine, Human Rights Watch, and the Tunisian, Sudanese, Saudi, Libyan and Moroccan embassies.

19 April 2008

The Israeli government should conduct an immediate and independent investigation into the deaths of four civilians, including a Reuters cameraman and two teenage boys, in Gaza on April 16, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today.  Human Rights Watch's investigations at the site found evidence suggesting that an Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist's team.

18 April 2008

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed an agreement by Sudanese authorities to end censorship after journalist union leaders brought together a group of newspaper editors in a concerted effort to strengthen ethical journalism and media independence in the country.

16 April 2008

The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death today of a Reuters cameraman who was killed in the Gaza strip while filming an Israeli tank.

Cameraman Fadel Shana, 23, was killed and soundman Wafa Abu Mizyed, also in his 20s, was wounded after the crew stopped their car and began filming Israeli military forces located several hundred meters away, according to Reuters. Shana was filming the tank when it apparently fired on the Reuters TV crew.

14 April 2008

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the unification of Tunisia's two journalist unions in a move to strengthen the defence of journalists' rights and promote press freedom.

10 April 2008

Reporters Without Borders condemns a 7 April raid on the Jerusalem studios of the pro-peace radio station RAM FM, in which Israeli police closed the studios, arrested seven employees and seized its transmitter on the grounds that it was disrupting communication between aircraft and the Ben Gurion airport control tower. After being held overnight, the employees were placed under house arrest.

During the week of 31 March - 6 April 2008, Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on Sky News about Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, and adviser Tahrir Swift was interviewed by Press TV about Iraq.

AMW organised a film screening and Q&A on Iraq entitled "Meeting Resistance," and had a meeting with the Arab League.

Al Arab published an article by AMW adviser Tahrir Swift entitled "Health & environmental catastrophe in Iraq," a commentary on Iraq by adviser Sami Ramadani entitled "A great leap backward," a report by member Lubna Samara entitled "Israel: Unconventional weapons & cluster bombs," and an ad for "Meeting Resistance."

The Arab magazine published an article by AMW member Dan Brett on Iranian Arabs, an article by Nashashibi entitled "O Throttled Town of Bethlehem," and another by Nashashibi on Arabs in Cuba.

AMW liaised with every British broadsheet newspaper, the BBC, the Economist, Al Jazeera English, the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, ABC News, Arab News Broadcasting, the Arab Media Centre at Westminster University, the Qatari and Moroccan embassies, and Verso Books.