Twinning
IMS twinning activities within the Media Cooperation Programme for the Arab World and Iran refer to partnerships established between journalists or media institutions in Denmark and the Arab region. A partnership should be focused on practical collaboration between media professionals. Through twinning, IMS aims to mutually strengthen the knowledge about Arab and Danish societies among media and their audiences, and to foster networks between media practitioners across the borders.Archive
- Young lives in Badawi Refugee Camp, Lebanon
- The Danish connection to Fatah al-Islam
- The Danish connection to Fatah al-Islam Part II
- Danish radio live from Damascus
- Lebanese film maker directing film at the Danish Film School
- Ask Riz Khan from Al Jazeera!
- Film to focus on Palestinian women
- A visit to Radio Arabesque in Damascus
- Testing Danish TV formats for TV in Syria
- Sounding boards
- Debating the role of women
- Photos offer new views
- From Damascus to Copenhagen
- A rare insight
- Arab and Danish filmmakers pool their efforts
- Danish film students capture life in the Arab world
- Summer holds promises for future of Lebanese film
- "Borderlands" - synopsis
- Filmography of Sawsan Darwaza productions
- Award to film co-produced by Danes and Arabs
- Partnerships across borders
- Article (Danish): Familie frem for eventyr, 2005
- Artikel: Billedet af islam og billeder i islam, 18 February, 2005
- Artikel: for langt ude til Beirut, 2005
- Media in the Middle East Crisis: Co-production, professional self-reflection and improved conflict coverage, 2003
Danish radio live from Damascus
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Danish listeners were treated to a live, daily broadcast from the streets of Damascus by National Danish Radio P3’s popular programme Køter between 5-8 October. The broadcast from Syria was a result of strong links between Syrian Radio Arabesque and Danmarks Radio forged by IMS
The programme featured a mix of Danish and Syrian radio hosts in cooperation with Syrian Radio Arabesque and reported on the lives of ordinary people in Damascus.
Although the team was faced with technical difficulties due to a weak network connection to Denmark, Køter succeeded in broadcasting six hours of radio from the studios of Radio Arabesque in Syria including an interview with the famous Syrian actor Adnan and the Danish ambassador in Damascus. 
Sub-editor of the programme, Christian Ottenheim said:
- Despite the technical challenges, our team succeeded in proving that radio broadcasts from the Middle East do not have to focus on religious differences, conflicts and cultural divisions between countries, but instead can look at the lives of ordinary people and similarities between our cultures, not the differences. Broadcasting to Denmark out of Syria was also a useful lesson in terms of finding a format in which P3 can broadcast from anywhere in the world.
Host on the programme, Tony Scott Jakobsen and producer Mia Rask Vendelbjerg were both very pleased with the collaboration with Radio Arabesque and emphasied that they hoped the programme had provided listeners with a different view of the Middle east, going beyond the traditional portrayal tied to conflict.
DR’s cooperation with Radio Arabesque, the first and biggest private radio station in Syria, is part of IMS’s twinning and exchange programme for Danish and Arab media. By partnering Danish and Arab media professionals, the aim is to help journalists produce more multifaceted and less stereotypical coverage of one another.
For more about National Dansih Radio's week in Syria, see http://www.dr.dk/P3/Hund/forside.htm.