DOHA: 'Media Expo Qatar 2008', a media and advertising exhibition and conference, will bring top Arab journalists and legal experts to discuss media-related issues in the Arab and GCC countries.
The focus will particularly be on the GCC states. Organised by Dar Al Sharq Printing and Publishing Establishment, and sponsored by Qatar Telecommunications (QTel), Qatar Media and Al Jazeera network, the event will feature three seminars which will discuss issues like 'relationship between editorial policy and advertising', 'the issue of identity in the GCC press' and 'freedom crisis in Arab countries'.
The conference will be held simultaneously with the expo that will get underway in Doha from December 14 to 17. Abdulrahman Al Musfir Al Ajemi from Kuwait, Turki bin Abdullah Al Sudeiri from Saudi Arabia and Attorney Hani Al Dahleh from Jordan will address the above three issues, respectively.
Al Sudeiri, a renowned GCC journalist and writer who has been in the field since 1973, is Editor-in-Chief, Al Riyadh Newspaper, Board Member of Al Yamama Press Company (Saudi Arabia) and Board Member of Saudi Journalists Association, and Board Member of Arab Journalism Award (UAE). He participated in several international and Arab conferences and covered a number of UN and Arab States conferences.
Al Ajemi, a Kuwaiti journalist and writer, is Director General of Al Mada Media Consultant in Kuwait. He is also a rapporture of more that 8 ministerial committees involved in media issues in Kuwait. He prepared and presented many programmes in Kuwait radio and TV. He is also researcher in strategic affairs in Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and wrote many editorials.
Al Dahleh is Secretary-General of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights which aims at ensuring respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all citizens and residents of the Arab world. He also has membership in several Arab organisations besides writer in several Arab newspapers.
© The Peninsula 2008
