Arab Media Watch members Asad Khan and Ruth Tenne got letters published in the Daily Mail on 27 June and 29 June 2007 respectively, following an AMW Action Alert to thank regular columnist Andrew Alexander.
Arab Media Watch, the Council for Arab-British Understanding and the Next Century Foundation invite you to a panel discussion entitled "What now for Palestine?" on Thursday 5 July 2007 at the Arab British Chamber of Commerce.
The Guardian on 18 June 2007 reported the row between Arab Media Watch and Daily Mail regular columnist and BBC Moral Maze regular Melanie Phillips, whose blog post urging her readers to write to us resulted in racist hate mail that we sent to the media.
On 1 May 2007, Arab Media Watch wrote a letter to the Daily Mirror pointing out a factual error in an article on 30 April which claimed that East Jerusalem is in Israel.
As a result, the newspaper published a correction on 18 May.
18 June 2007
Last week, Arab Media Watch published extracts of the hate mail we received after Daily Mail columnist and BBC Moral Maze regular Melanie Phillips urged her blog readers to complain to us. We subsequently received two more gems to make her proud.
Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi responds to the campaign by Melanie Phillips against the organisation, and the hate mail it has generated.
13 June 2007
7 June 2007
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Arab Media Watch has produced a package of seven documents, which together explain the legal status of the occupied territories, summarise past and current peace-making efforts, and tackle the myths that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, that the Arabs started the war, and that the Gaza Strip is no longer occupied.
Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi got a letter published in the Daily Express on 6 June 2007 regarding the legal status of the West Bank and an incorrect map published by the newspaper alongside a travel piece about Jordan
This followed a complaint by AMW to the Press Complaints Commission after the Express initially refused publication.
Arab Media Watch launches 'media quotes' archive
This section contains press releases, mainly from AMW but sometimes other organisations, about media coverage of and events relating to the Arab world.
