Transmediale

Venue: Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 2 February 2006
Support: German Foreign Office, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Topic: Media Development

On the occasion of the Transmediale art festival MICT invited Iraqi journalists and writers to Berlin to discuss the role of Iraqi and foreign media in the political development of Iraq. The panel, "Fragile freedoms - Iraq's media landscape", included Ali Badar (Iraqi writer), Susanne Fischer (IWPR), Saad Salloum (Al-Mashriq) and Ismail Zayer (Al-Sabah al-Jadid), and was organized and moderated by MICT.

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Election Day

Venue: Berlin, Kulturbrauerei, 31 January 2005
Support: German Foreign Office
Topic: Elections

On the occasion of the Iraqi parliamentary elections, on 31 January 2005, MICT invited eight Middle East experts to a debate on the political process in Iraq, the elections within the context of political tensions, and the election results. The panel, which was held before an audience of 350 guests, was moderated by Michael Lüders and included Susanne Fischer (IWPR), Henner Fürtig (GIGA Institute), Aktham Sulaiman (Al Jazeera), Nesrine Shibib (MICT), Hassan Hussein (Deutsche Welle) and Ala Hussein Al-Hashimi (Iraqi ambassador to Germany).

The discussion was held within the framework of a four-hour live radio show, broadcasted from Iraq, on the vote counting in the country and the immediate impact of the election, which the audience in Berlin could listen to via headphones either in the Arabic original or simultaneously translated into German. A bilingual ticker, projected at a big screen, provided the latest news sent to Berlin by MICT's correspondents and election observers in Iraq.




Radio Conference

Venue: Amman, 15.08.05
Support: UNESCO
Topic: Media Development

On 15 August 2005 a conference on Radio Broadcasting was held in Amman to which MICT invited representatives and directors of 22 Iraqi radio stations. The purpose of the conference was to network with Iraqi radio stations, to find ways of future cooperation and to discuss challenges and difficulties that radio Broadcasters face in Iraq. As a result of the conference, all 22 radio stations agreed on cooperation within the framework of the Radio Network Agency (RRN) and to sign a Professional Code of Ethics that binds those stations to the commitment to independent and professional journalism.

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