November 2011
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August 2011
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WatchI spoke about Recent Successes and Failures in the Palestinian Struggle at The Palestine Center in Washington DC with Adel Iskandar.
May 2011
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WatchI put together a panel about Social Media, Technology & Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North African Uprisings.
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WatchI spoke to Free Speech TV at The National Conference for Media Reform about Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” and how I got into journalism.
April 2011
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WatchHow are independent voices beating mainstream media to the story, amplifying their message, and shedding crucial light in times of crisis? How are independent journalists prodding mainstream media to cover issues they might otherwise ignore?
WatchDTFF hosted a welcome lunch for filmmakers, actors and industry guests. I spoke to the attendees, among which included, Salma Hayek Pinault, Adel Imam and Yosra, DTFF’s President of the Jury.
WatchSpeaking on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi Circle Conference, Tarek Ben Ammar, the renowned Tunisian film financier/producer, urged Arab media professionals of their duty to get their points of view out to the world through film and TV. I spoke to him about the current state of TV in the Middle East.
WatchI moderated a discussion of the film with participants of the National Democratic Institute’s Young Womens Academy 2009 who watched a screening of Yael Luttwaks’ film, A Slim Peace.
WatchDirector Julian Schnabel’s Miral is the moving story of a girl growing up in Palestine following the 1948 Nakba. I met with Schnabel, lead actress, Frieda Pinto, and writer Rula Jebreal, to discuss the film ahead of it’s red carpet screening at DTFF.
WatchDFI’s Ahmed Shihab-Eldin guides you through the Souq Waqif, Doha’s most characteristic and popular market, which was redesigned in 2004 to recreate the rich ambiance of Qatar’s traditional past.
March 2011
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WatchI was on a panel hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists at Columbia Univ to discuss the role, impact and future of social media around the world, from Egypt to Iran to China, with Rebecca MacKinnon, Sheila Coronel, Nazila Fathi, and Danny O’Brien.
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WatchI spoke on a panel at the Google Headquarters in NYC just hours after President Mubarak stepped down. We debated the role of social media leading up to and during these kind of events and what the proper context of social media should be.
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April 2010
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WatchJane Eisner, editor of The Forward, and I joined Brian Lehrer to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian media war. Mind you, it was 3 am in Beirut, with a dial up connection.