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".
Also at the ESF, Dr. Ghada Karmi, a patron of AMW and research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, joins the likes of Harold Pinter, Mike Rosen and Victoria Brittain at a public meeting entitled "Words of Resistance", where she will read exerpts from her book "In Search of Fatima".
On the same day, AMW director Tahrir Swift speaks on women under occupation in Iraq.
Meanwhile, AMW director Muna Nashashibi is speaking in Beirut at the "Arab International Forum on Rehabilitation and Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory", backed by the UN, the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority, which takes place October 11-14. After this, she will speak at a conference in Syria on the role of expatriates.
This follows a media conference in Ramallah in which AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi chaired and spoke in a session including Mike Berry, co-author of "Bad News from Israel", and senior BBC producer Omar Abdel Razeq. Recently, Sharif was interviewed on Irish radio with Amira Hass, the award-winning correspondent for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, on events in Gaza. This followed an interview with Sharif on South African radio regarding suicide bombings.
AMW advisor and London Metropolitan University senior lecturer Sami Ramadani's latest commentary entitled "The true face of Iraqi resistance" was published in the Guardian on September 30.
Also, AMW correspondent and advisor Victor Kattan's interview with Lex Takkenberg, head of UNRWA in Syria, was published in the country's Al Thawra newspaper. And his interview with Afif Safieh, Palestinian General Delegate to the UK and Holy See, was published on October 7 in Lebanon's Daily Star.
You can register for the ESF at:
http://www.fse-esf.org/en/
All Arab-related events at the forum can be found at:
http://www.caabu.org/events/related_events.html
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