Beirut Media Forum 2008


Orient Institut

Islamism in the Media

Program

9 am: Opening Discussion Samir Farah (FES), Franck Mermier (IFPO), Stefan Leder (OIB)

9:15 am - 10 am: Presentation of the Seminar Olfa Lamloum (IFPO)

10:00 am - 11:30 am
Panel 1: On the Construction of Crises
Chair: Melhem Chaoul, Sociologist, Lebanese University

From the ‘Believing Youth’ to the 'Huthis': Media Coverage of the War of Saada in Yemen.
Samy Dorlian, Ph.D. candidate, Institut d’Etudes politiques, Aix-en-Provence
Algerian-French Look on the Second War in Algeria.
Salima Mellah, Journalist, France
Darfur: Vanguard for the ‘War on Islamo-fascism’?
Fabrice Weissman, Research Director, Doctors without Borders, Paris

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Coffee break

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Panel 2: Islamism in Opposition
Chair: Mona Harb, Political Sciences and Urban Planning, American University of Beirut

The Presence of Religious Bloggers in Weblogestan (the Iranian blogosphere).
Masserat Amir Ebrahimi, Associated Researcher, CNRS, Paris - Tehran
The Saudi Media and the ‘War on Terrorism’.
Saad Sowayan, Anthropologist, King Saud University, Riyadh
Islamist (Opposition) Parties in the German Media.
Muriel Asseburg, Head of Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin

1.30 pm - 2:30 pm Break

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel 3: Islamism and Media Strategies
Chair: Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Religious Studies, Université de Montréal

The Salafi Media: A Case Study of the Satellite Channel ‘al-Nas’.
Husam Tammam, Researcher and journalist, Egypt
Patterns of Islamist use of the Internet.
Alev Inan, Researcher, Media education, Passau University
Scoop or Responsibility? How Should Journalists deal with Messages from the Terrorist Underground?
Anne-Béatrice Clasmann, Journalist, dpa, Istanbul

4 :00 pm - 4 :30 pm Coffee break

4:30 pm - 6 pm
Round Table: Media and the “War on Terrorism”
Chair: Ahmad Karaoud, Head of Amnesty International’s Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa

Rasha al-Atrash, Journalist, Lebanon (al-Safir) (to be confirmed)
Fida Ittani, Journalist, Lebanon (al-Akhbar)
Birgit Kaspar, Freelance Correspondent, Beirut (Deutschlandradio and various
German Media)
Paul Khalifeh, Journalist (Magazine, to be confirmed)
Jihad el-Zein, Journalist, Lebanon (an-Nahar)

Simultaneous translation available (Arabic, English, French).

? "Islamism in the media" or "Media against islam "

well obviously it's targetting islam and heads on to block any possibility to show the true and full islam as Allah wanted it to be
they want to show a deformed picture of it either you are terrorist and hooligan or you should be in their party ... jely islam
which is not what we beleive in
so the question is .. is it important to be there? or just let it go??
should we be there and comunicate with them or should we be there and just get informed of what they want to say
???

salam aleykom

In my opnion, it is always better to know , and be informed

But I am not sure if anyone there would listen to what you want to say

I think they would listen if we voice our concerns loudly. I think it is worth it to attend and speak out loud and invite them to saowt as well :)

ok
for those who would like to attend
thi is the adress and the date

Time and PlaceDate:Friday, November 21, 2008
Time:9:00am - 6:00pm
Location:Le Méridien Commodore
Street:Hamra
City/Town:Beirut, Lebanon

i will try to go inshaAllah and see what use can we get of it
pray for me not to get beain washed
ha3ha3ha3ha3
just kidding
:)
salam aleykom