Arab Media Watch Chairman Sharif Nashashibi was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live on May 19 at 6.30 pm about the recent suicide bombings in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Nashashibi pointed out that while media coverage of the bombings is extensive, there has been scant reporting of Israeli murders, attacks and other provocations between April 30 (the day the 'roadmap' to peace was published) and the suicide bombings of May 17.

A list of some of the provocations, which Nashashibi mentioned in the interview, can be viewed here.

Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on Iran's Sahar TV on March 26 regarding Israel's latest settlement drive on Palestinian land. He is also quoted in the March 26 - April 1 edition of the Economist magazine in an analysis entitled "How Palestinians and Israelis make their images", and was interviewed recently by US TV station ABC.

AMW advisor Dr. Ala Khazendar got a letter published in the March 26 edition of the Guardian.

Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi and director Muna Nashashibi were part of a small delegation of journalists, academics and officials who met with Syrian Information Minister Dr. Mahdi Dakhlala on January 19 at the newly launched Syrian Media Centre in central London.

Dakhlala answered questions on Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, democracy, peace prospects, weapons of mass destruction, and US policy in the Middle East.

Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on January 18 on Newstalk 106 FM, Ireland's radio station of the year, along with the chief editor of the Jerusalem Post, on prospects for a Palestinian ceasefire.

AMW advisor Christopher Leadbeater got a letter published on the same subject in the January 19 edition of Israel's Haaretz newspaper.

On the same day, AMW director Tahrir Swift was interviewed by BBC Scotland on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

Tahrir and AMW advisor Sami Ramadani were among 20 Iraqi signatories of a letter published in the January 21 edition of the Guardian explaining why they are boycotting the elections.

On the same day, AMW was featured in a TV programme on the imagery of Arabs in the West on Arab News Broadcasting.

Ramadani was interviewed twice on BBC Radio 4 - on January 21 on The World Tonight, and on January 22 on Today - on the Iraqi elections.

Sharif and directors Muna Nashashibi and Victor Kattan were interviewed about AMW on Syrian TV on January 22.

Following a string of successful events last year, Arab Media Watch is pleased to announce the launch of our events series for 2005, starting with two on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the coming fortnight.

Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on January 7 along with right-wing Israeli historian Benny Morris on Newstalk 106, Ireland's station of the year, about the Palestinian elections. Nashashibi was interviewed by Newstalk 106 about the election results on January 10. He was also interviewed about the elections on January 8 by Iran's Sahar TV, with Ismail Patel, head of Friends of Al Aqsa.

AMW member Munir Chalabi speaks on January 13 at an event entitled "Iraq, Debt & the IMF".

AMW advisor Sami Ramadani is part of a panel on January 16 at a public meeting entitled "Bring the Troops Home!"

On December 17, Arab Media Watch director Victor Kattan got an article on boycotting Israel published in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly, and chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was a guest with Jeremy Corbyn MP on Iran's Sahar radio, discussing US foreign policy and European attitudes to it.

In the last week, Arab Media Watch advisor Christopher Leadbeater got letters published in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the International Herald Tribune.

Also, AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on February 24 about prospects for Arab-Israeli peace on Pakistan's ARY TV channel alongside Israeli journalist Jerry Lewis, Pakistani senator Iftikhar Ahmed and a former member of Israel's parliament.

During the last week, Arab Media Watch director Judith Brown gave a talk at Exeter University on the BBC and the Middle East conflict, and member Chris Doyle was part of a panel at the House of Commons discussing Israel's illegal wall in the West Bank.

On November 8, Arab Media Watch advisor Sami Ramadani was interviewed on BBC News 24, BBC 3 and twice on BBC Radio 5 Live about the US onslaught on Falluja. On November 9, he gives a talk on "Trade Unionism in Occupied Iraq" at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Last week he did a Ramadan Reflection piece for the BBC Asian network, and on November 10 he has a commentary published in the Guardian on events in Falluja.

AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi had an analysis on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat published in the November 7 edition of Ireland's Sunday Business Post. On November 11, he joins AMW director Muna Nashashibi and patron Dr. Ghada Karmi at a conference entitled "The Error in Terrorism? Political Violence and the Media".

Arab Media Watch director Muna Nashashibi has been chosen among hundreds of candidates to be one of the 12 members forming the International Working Group, which is the Women's National Commission's working group looking at international aspects of women's human rights and gender equality. This is the first time that an Arab voice is represented in this governmental institution.

Also, AMW advisor Sami Ramadani is speaking on occupation and resistance in Iraq at a public meeting on November 1, and AMW patron Dr. Ghada Karmi is part of a panel discussion on November 3 entitled "The Plight of Jerusalem: A Dying City".

On September 16, Arab Media Watch commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the massacres of Palestinians in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by publishing a press release by the Badil Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, and Robert Fisk's article at the time of the massacres, which is considered one of the 101 masterpieces from the finest writers and reporters in the "Mammoth Book of Journalism".

AMW laments the fact that the anniversary of this atrocity went completely unreported in the British press.

This week, Arab Media Watch shares a stall at the European Social Forum with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, during which Sabah Jawad of AMW and Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation is part of a plenary entitled "End the Occupation of Iraq".

AMW welcomes the release of Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu after serving almost 18 years in prison - nearly 12 of them in solitary confinement - for disclosing details of Israel's nuclear weapons production to the Sunday Times in 1986.

However we join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation of Journalists and other groups in condemning the "grotesque and perverse" limitations on travel, association and expression imposed by Israel on Vanunu as contrary to international law and "violations of his fundamental rights" that "breach basic principles of due process".

From the Palestine Centre for Human Rights
April 1, 2004

This week, Israeli occupying forces have continued to perpetrate violations of human rights against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). Human rights violations perpetrated by Israeli occupying forces included willful and extra-judicial killing, incursions into Palestinian areas, indiscriminate shelling and house demolitions. Israeli occupying forces have also continued construction of the "Annexation Wall" inside the West Bank and continued to impose a tight siege on the OPTs. This week, 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed by Israeli occupying forces.

From Save the Children
March 9, 2004

The stagnation of the Middle East peace process, military occupation and economic collapse all constitute a serious humanitarian crisis for Palestinians and Israelis living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Arab Media Watch welcomes the British Council's decision to terminate the employment of its senior press office Harry Cummins, following the results of its internal investigation which found that he was the author of 4 deeply offensive, inciteful articles about Islam and Muslims that appeared in the Sunday Telegraph in July 2004 under the pseudonym Will Cummins.

AMW thanks its members and the public for the strong response to its Action Alert calling for the dismissal of Cummins, for the mobilisation of other organisations, and for the investigation by the Guardian's Marina Hyde into his identity, the results of which, according to the newspaper, prompted "a flood of complaints to the council".

AMW joins the Muslim Council of Britain in urging the Sunday Telegraph to take action against its editor Dominic Lawson for the articles' publication.

Arab Media Watch strongly condemns Israel's assassination on April 17 of Hamas co-founder Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi, less than a month after murdering the organisation's spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

As usual, the assassination was anything but "targeted". Five pedestrians were wounded, and among the dead was al-Rantisi's son.

Israel's illegal assassinations policy against political leaders of a resistance movement and welfare provider will only further enflame Palestinian, Arab and Muslim public opinion.

AMW correspondent Victor Kattan covers the first day of the hearing on Israel's West Bank barrier at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

This comes on the same day as a Human Rights Watch report saying the barrier violates international human rights and humanitarian law, as well as excellent commentaries from Noam Chomsky and the mayor of the Palestinian town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

AMW correspondent Victor Kattan begins the first of a series of reports from The Hague.

February 22, 2004

From Amnesty International
February 19, 2004

On the eve of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) opening hearing on the construction of the fence/wall by Israel, Amnesty International calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately dismantle the sections already built inside the West Bank and halt the construction of the fence/wall and related infrastructure inside the Occupied Territories.

Arab Media Watch welcomes the resignation of Robert Kilroy-Silk as presenter of the Kilroy programme, and thanks all those who responded to our Action Alert to voice outrage at his anti-Arab remarks published on January 4 in the Sunday Express.

By Arab Media Watch director Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi.

The war in Iraq claimed more than a third of the total number of journalists killed worldwide in 2003 as a direct result of their work, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a report released on January 2, 2004.

From American Muslims for Jerusalem
October 2, 2003

From Red Pepper and the 1990 Trust.
July 12, 2005

In a move that appears designed to stir up Islamophobia, The Sun newspaper today launched a front page attack on Professor Tariq Ramadan, an internationally respected progressive Muslim scholar.   

On May 8 Safa Sawi, Arab Media Watch member and chair of the Arab Club of Britain, spoke on Egypt's Nile TV about AMW.

On May 16, Egypt's Al Akhbar newspaper published an article by Dr. Hamdi Al Sukout which talked of AMW being a role model for professional activism that should be supported, encouraged and emulated in European capitals and the US.

AMW was also mentioned in Al Hayat and Asharq Al Awsat newspapers on May 18.

On May 20, AMW member Sara Wood got a letter on BBC bias and Israel/Palestine published in the Daily Mail, in response to a commentary by Melanie Phillips which prompted an AMW Action Alert.

On May 21 Chris Doyle, AMW member and director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, got a letter published in the Daily Telegraph.

On May 22, AMW advisor Chris Leadbeater got a letter published in the Independent on Sunday.

On May 24, AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on Iran's Sahar TV.

On March 27, the Sunday Times published 4 letters on Daniel Day-Lewis's excellent article about his first trip to the Gaza Strip - 3 in support, 2 of which were from Arab Media Watch members. Thanks to everyone for the huge response to our Action Alert in support of the actor and newspaper. All letters bcc'd to us have been forwarded to his agent, which were received with thanks.

On March 28, AMW director Tahrir Swift was interviewed on the Arab News Network about British media coverage of the situation in Iraq.

AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was quoted in an article on Al Jazeera's website on April 1 regarding the conference he attended in Qatar on free trade and democracy in the Middle East that took place on March 29-30.

In the last week, Arab Media Watch director Victor Kattan and members Abdulhadi Ayyad and Chris Doyle got letters published in the Guardian, the Observer and the Daily Telegraph.

AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi appeared on BBC Radio 5 on March 2 to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

AMW advisor Karma Nabulsi was interviewed by the BBC World Service on March 2, and got a commentary published in the March 1 edition of the Guardian entitled "Face up to the facts on the ground", an analysis of the recent London conference on Palestine.

AMW director Tahrir Swift was interviewed on March 6 by Ireland's Global Women Radio about the situation in Iraq, the elections, the status of women, and plans to privatise Al Jazeera.

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November 13, 2003

From the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).

November 5, 2003

In an adjournment debate in Parliament on November 4, MPs spoke out against Israel's construction of the separation wall in the West Bank.

October 20, 2003

Since its inception almost 4 years ago, AMW has been run by, and owes its success to, the sheer d