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Category: Conferences

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Will religion destroy the world.. or heal it? McCain’s crazy pastor vs. Karen Armstrong’s sanity

    We truly live in a dangerous time. Never before in my generation’s time has the world been so full of hateful propaganda, fear and mutual suspicion. What is scary is that extremists, absolutists and outright fanatics from all cultures and all quarters seem to have won the upper hand right now. Yet at the same…

  • George W. Palestine

    If anything, this is one heck of a magazine cover. The Economist says: GEORGE BUSH is not likely to be remembered by history as the saviour of the Middle East. He botched Iraq, dropped his democratic “freedom agendaâ€ย when the Arabs started voting for the wrong people, and has spent most of his two terms…

  • Talking about The BOB and blogging: my interview on Al Jazeera

    “As Seen on TV” I made an appearance (with my orange pullover) on Al Jazeera this morning to talk about The BOBS and why blogging is important.

  • BOBS interview: Die Zeit

    I’ve been interviewed by Germany’s super quality queen of newspapers, Die Zeit, about blogs, cross cultural dialogue and freedom of expression. Some of what I said made into their article about the BOBS [Achtung Baby, link is in German] Read these related posts on 360east: Best of the Blogs.. the jury deliberations are over Best…

  • Best of the Blogs 2007: The power of Black and White in “White Russia”..

    The ceremony is over and the winners of The BOBS have been announced. Xenia Awimova, a 23-year-old aspiring photojournalist who lives and works in the Belarusian capital of Minsk runs “Foto-Griffoneurei” (literally translated as “Photo-Maniac”). Her collections of photos chronicle her live and that of her home city. “In Belarus there are not many independent…

  • Best of the Blogs.. the jury deliberations are over

    After 8 hours of being looked up in a conference room at the Deutsche Welle’s Berlin headquarters, The BOBS deliberation art finally over. And the winners are.. Oh.. Wait.. I can’t tell you yet. There is an “embargo” on the results until tomorrow’s awards ceremony at the Museum of Communication in Berlin. The discussions of…

  • In Berlin, finding the best blog of the world ๐Ÿ˜‰ (ahem, ahem)

    After a grueling 15 hour trip from Amman to Berlin, I am finally here in the good old German capital. Why? Because I am a jury member of the BOBS, Best of the Blogs award, the global blogging competition organized by Deutsche Welle, I still can’t believe that I am traveling again, as I just…

  • Tech.Connect: A new start for tech entrepreneurship in Jordan?

    When you’ve lived long enough in Jordan, you realize that the country is a “museum” not just of archeological sites, but also all kinds of “amazing initiatives”. When an initiative ends up in the museum it means it is dead. Jordan comes up with a cool initiative, then somehow it manages to get stifled/mismanaged/turned into…

  • Jehane Noujaim: bring people together through the power of the image

    I was delighted to find this video of Jehane Noujaim’s talk at the TED conference last year. Jehane is a filmmaker of both Arab and American origins (in the talk she puts this more eloquently than this: “I am the Middle East crisis in one person”). She is well known for her documentaries like Control…

  • Rem Koolhaas in Amman talk today

    Either I have been living on Mars for the past few days or this event is being totally under-promoted (actually I just discovered I have two overlooked email messages about this in my inbox!!). Apparently Rem Koolhaas is giving a talk at Al Hussein Cultural Center today. I just heard about it today (from a…