Media on the Move

Editor: Anja Wollenberg, Klaas Glenewinkel (MICT)
Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (2007)
Topic: Media development

MICT's most recent publication is a reader on the developmental status of media in Iraq, with a focus on regulation and legislation issues. A collection of commentaries on the IMN and CMC draft laws is presented and the special situation of media workers and media production is discussed. Furthermore, program profiles of broadcasters and consumption habits of the audience are provided.

Participating authors are: Monroe Price (Annenberg School of Communication, Pennsylvania) and Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Anna Zayer (Al Sabah al Jadid), Zuhair al Jezairy (Aswat al Iraq), Salam Pax (Blogger, Where is Raed?), Ahmed al Rikabi (Radio Dijla), Ali al-Aousi (Board of Trustees, IMN), Sophie Redmond (Article 19), Volker Grassmuck (HU-Berlin), Ang Peng Hwa (Nanyang Technological University), Yehya Shukair (Jordanian journalist), Douglas Griffin (Albany Associates), Anja Wollenberg (MICT), Ihsan Walzi (MICT)



Iraq 360 degrees

Editor: Anja Wollenberg, Klaas Glenewinkel (MICT}
Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Language: Arabic/English

Leaving from Baghdad International Airport on 1 September, 2005, two Iraqi writers, Faris Harram and Abdulmohsin Saleh set out upon a journey, which, over the three months to follow, would take them to Damascus, Istanbul and Ankara, Cairo, and Beirut. At each stage of their journey, they met up with artists and intellectuals, attended concerts and exhibitions, and met with writers and publishers. For the documentation of their journey in a book, Faris and Abdulmohsin have selected interviews and reflected on experiences which had special meaning for them. In personal accounts they not only report on events that moved them at various times but also, from a distance, reflect upon their lives in Iraq.



SHAHADAT

Editor: Anja Wollenberg, Klaas Glenewinkel (MICT)
Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (2007)
Topic: Cultural transformation of Iraqi society

SHAHADAT is a collection of interviews, articles, artworks and other comments on the cultural transformation of Iraqi society in the past four years. The participating authors are key figures in the cultural political discourse, who seize on themes such as: the relationship of intellectuals living in Iraq to their colleagues in the Diaspora (Ali Bader); the relationship to new and old governments (Haidar Saeed); the feasibility of critique and critical artistic output (Thawra Yousif, Sherko Bekas); new religious movements (Lutfia al-Dulaimi); violence, coming to terms with the past, and life in exile (Basim Kahar, Mohamed Mazloom).