Media Cooperation with the Arab World and Iran

IMS works with the Arab world and Iran to enhance the ability of media to serve as a platform for transparency, diversity, pluralism and accountability in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region.  IMS programmes support media professionalism and opportunities to build social capital and mutual understanding between Arab and Danish media workers.

Archive

EU condemns Syria's restrictions on freedom of expression and killings of journalists


Protesters on the streets of Damascus in April 2011. Photo: Flickr

12.01.2012
In a statement released this week, the EU Delegation to Syria condemns the killings, arrests and intimidation of Syrian journalists, bloggers and online activists. Read the full statement below

Attacks on Palestinian journalists doubled in 2011


Palestinian journalists at work. Photo: Lena Bjornsen

02.01.2012
Violations of press freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories skyrocketed during the months of the Arab spring uprisings and during its UN bid for statehood. Political unrest in the region has made journalists prime targets for harassment and assault

Syrian blogger released


Razan Ghazzawi

20.12.2011
Razan Ghazzawi, a Syrian blogger who was arrested on 4 December on her way to a conference in Jordan, has been freed on bail

Debate: Documenting a revolution


Documenting a revolution. Photo: CPH:DOX

09.11.2011
During the Arab Spring, ever-present cameras and mobile phones gave citizens the chance to document their own revolutions first-hand. Meet four prominent Arab media professionals in a debate about documenting revolutions as they unfold

Syrian filmmaker arrested en route to Denmark


Photo: CPH:DOX

06.11.2011
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, CPH:DOX 2011 and IMS are currently confronting audiences with poignant and moving testimony to the great social and popular upheavals of the Arab Spring
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