Arab Media Forum Announces Two Main Sessions for 9th Edition
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Noted Panelists to Address ’Emerging Asia: Story of China and India’ and ’Bridging the Satellite Space between the Maghreb and Mashreq Countries’
Dubai Press Club today announced details of two main sessions that will take place during the first day’s agenda of the Arab Media Forum 2010, focusing on the dramatic strides the media sector has taken in Asia in contrast to its Western counterpart and the importance of bridging satellite space between the Maghreb and Mashreq countries.
To be held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, AMF 2010 will be held from 12-13 May at The Atlantis Palm.
Maryam Bin Fahad, Executive Director, Dubai Press Club: “The Arab Media Forum will address some of the most crucial topics dominating the Arab and global media landscape. Of primary interest to decision makers and media personalities, the event will particularly look at how path-breaking trends in technology impact the way news is disseminated worldwide.
“This AMF edition is aptly themed ‘Shifting Mediascape: Inspiring Content…Expanding Reach’ and focus on the changing dynamics in the media sector across the Arab countries and rest of the world. More importantly, it will review how media institutes are dealing with the global financial crisis besides highlighting the importance of producing local content for enhancing the performance of the Arab media.”
The session ‘Emerging Asia: The Story of China and India’ will spotlight the dramatic growth of the print, electronic and the broadcast media in Asian countries such as China, India, and Malaysia. It will also do a comparative study of the industry developments in the West, where the twin phenomenon of media mergers and a migration of readers to the Web has resulted in a decline of media empires and led to an increasing closure of newspapers and high-traffic Web sites.
Moderated by Dr Tayeb Kamali, Vice-Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, the session will include speakers such as Dilip Cherian, Consulting Partner and Co-founder, Perfect Relations, Jonathan Fenby, China Director of the research company Trusted Sources, Chua Huck Cheng, Chief editorial writer of the Singapore Straits Times, Dr. Abdulla Al Madani, Academic Researcher and Lecturer in International Relations and Asian Studies (Bahrain), and N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, India.
The second session ’Bridging the satellite space between the Maghreb and the Mashreq countries of the Arab world‘will study the media scene in the Maghreb countries and identify the obstacles to the dissemination of content in the Mashreq region. It will also address questions about the ability of media institutes in Maghreb countries to generate content that caters to public needs and the opportunities to bridging satellite space between the Maghreb and the Mashreq countries of the Arab world.
The session will be moderated by Wassila Oulmi, Al-Jazeera News Channel Anchor, and feature speakers such as Ezzuddin Mayhubi, Algeria Information Minister, Edmund Ghareeb, Adjunct Professor, School of International Service - The American University, Fahmy Howidy, Journalist and Writer, Mahmud Shammam, Managing Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine, and Mohamed Auajjar, President of Shurooq Media and Human Rights Center in Morocco.
Further details on the workshops and speakers at the Arab Media Forum 2010 will be uploaded on www.arabmediaforum.ae and disseminated across local newspapers, news portal and agencies.
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