Month: June 2008
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Is anyone in Amman having an internet outage?
I have an ADSL line from Orange. A bit past midnight the web started acting crazy. Most pages don’t load. Some do very slowly. Is anyone facing the same problem? Read these related posts on 360east: Done searching the web? Now search your own PC! Good speed on my 2 Megabit Orange internet connection! Beyond…
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Terrorists on the web: the evolution of the online discussion
This is a part of a jam-packed, lively breakout session of the Global Media Forum yesterday, entitled “Terrorists Online”. It was moderated by Yassin Musharbash, Editor, SPIEGEL-ONLINE. The panel consisted of: Dr. Ammar Bakkar, Chief Editor of Alarbiya.net und Head of New Media at MBC Prof. Dr. phil. Oliver Hahn, Centre for Advanced Study in…
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The employees of Deutsche Welle can sing!
The employee choir of Deutsche Welle sings a South American song at the Global Media Forum dinner yesterday. Read these related posts on 360east: The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum starts now In Berlin, finding the best blog of the world 😉 (ahem, ahem) Shirin Ebadi at the Global Media Forum: Beware of the warmongers…
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UPCOMING: Reading between the lies – Perception and prejudice in the Middle East
For those of you interested in the media aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it might be worth it to check out the session “Reading between the lies – Perception and prejudice in the Middle East” at the Global Media Forum, which will be held at 12:00 pm German time (that would be 1:00 pm Amman…
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Shirin Ebadi at the Global Media Forum: Beware of the warmongers and monopolists
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, kicked off yesterday in Bonn, Germany. After a couple of welcoming speeches by the director of Deutsche Welle and a local minister, Shirin Ebadi took the podium. Just a minute before she started, someone announced that she will speak in in farsi, sending almost everyone scrambling for the translation…
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Should the media prevent conflicts or does it thrive on them?
Aref Hijjawi (bald guy in the middle), who is a familiar name to those of us who listened to the BBC Arabic service in the last decade. He is now a program director at Al Jazeera. Yesterday he was the dissenting voice at the Global Media Forum session entitled “Crisis prevention through media intervention”. He…
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The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum starts now
Arrived in Frankfurt yesterday noon. Then in Bonn yesterday night. I will be blogging and sharing pictures and videos from the conference whenever I can. The Forum has just started now in the plenary hall of the former German parliament building in Bonn. The head of Deutsche Welle is now welcoming the participants including the…