Jorn De Cock
Middle East Editor
De Standaard, Belgium
Jorn De Cock is the Middle East Editor for De Standaard, Belgium’s premier Dutch-language newspaper, covering the Arab world from Iraq to Libya.
De Cock is a regular contributor to the Berlin-based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and a consultant for Syria’s premier English-language newspaper Baladna, which he helped launch last year.
De Cock will release his third book this summer titled ‘Arabian Dawn, a Journey between Glamour and Fatwa’. He has already published ‘The Urging of the East’ that was compiled during a long journey through Eastern Europe while working as an Eastern Europe Editor for De Standaard.
Jorn De Cock will be speaking at:
“Arabic channels’ diffidence to speak the ‘other’ language… A case study of the Al Jazeera International Channel [ Atlantis Ballroom ]
Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:00 PM – 03:15 PM
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