Media Cooperation with the Arab World and Iran

The IMS “Media and Dialogue” focus area aims to enhance freedom of expression and, through exchanges and collaboration between media professionals, generate more nuanced media coverage in Denmark as well as in the countries of cooperation. Activities include cooperation with media partners throughout the Arab world and Iran.

 

What's it like for foreign media to work in the Arab world? IMS has interviewed some of the experts:

Archive

World Press Freedom Day: Watch out for "Big Brother"


Iranian opposition showing its green colours and discontent following the Iranian presidential election 12 June. Photo: Syma Sayyah/Payvand.com

03.05.2010
Governments use social networks as platforms for propaganda, and some to identify and crack down on activists. In a world where everyone can join the news stream, traditional professional media are needed more than ever, says IMS Director Jesper Højberg

New international initiative in support of Iranian media


Nooshabeh Amiri, founder and editor of Rooz Online news in talk with Danish reporter at the Copenhagen meeting. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS

28.04.2010
A group of exiled Iranian journalists marked the beginning of a new and vital initiative aimed at improving conditions for Iranian media  during a visit to Denmark this week

Social media and democracy in closed societies


Cartoon by Nikahang Kowsar, Iranian Cartoonist

26.04.2010
In closed societies like Iran where most print and electronic media are state-controlled, the internet and social media can provide a unique platform for accessing and sharing information. But is its potential overstated?

Turkey's divisions: Not about religion, but about class and ideology

23.11.2009

Article by Dr. Rainer Hermann, correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Abu Dhabi. October 2009.

Turkey a future central player in Middle East


Conference on Turkey and the Middle East, hosted at the Danish Cultural Institute in Damascus, co-funded by IMS. Photo: Lis Jespersen/IMS

23.11.2009
A resurgent Turkey is rewriting the rules of the power game in the Middle East, emerging as a new, important mediator. Those were some of the opinions voiced in a high profile meeting in Damascus in November about Turkey and the Middle East
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