30 April 2007
Arab Media Watch announces the launch of a major monitoring study of how the media portrays the Arab Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Covering the period July 2006 to March 2007, the 21-page report focuses on editorials, columns, commentaries, analyses and features from the British national daily broadsheets and tabloids.
We seek the pleasure of your company at the third annual fundraising dinner of Arab Media Watch, an independent, non-profit organisation (the only one of its kind) set up in 2000 to strive for objective coverage of Arab issues in the British media.
The event starts at 7pm on Saturday 8 September 2007 at the Royal Garden hotel on Kensington High Street, London. Dress code is lounge suit.
12 April 2007
Arab Media Watch congratulates Times photographer Peter Nicholls, whose pictures of life in Beirut during last summer's Israeli invasion of Lebanon have been named photo essay of the year at the Press Photographer's Year Awards 2007. The competition generated 6,000 entries from 25 countries, and is the definitive annual event for UK media photographers.
AMW also congratulates Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a former Washington Post Iraq bureau chief, whose book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" has been nominated for the £30,000 Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize 2007.
11 April 2007
Writer/director Jaffar Abd al-Hamid is issuing a casting call for a highly visual, self-funded super16mm English-language feature titled MESOCAFE, shooting in London in June."On his short stay within the Middle Eastern community of London, a traveller from the East discovers new aspects of his own character and world outlook through interacting with the city and with Bisan, the attractive translator of Arabic texts."
AMW panel on media coverage of Arab world: 23 September
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