Presenting a one day festival featuring a selection of Afghan films from Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival.   Join us on Saturday May 21st, for this special program which includes four different screenings and two panel discussions with guest speakers.

Saturday May 21, 2011 @ 12:00 PM
Price: $20.00
AMEJA Member Price: $18.00

For more information please visit: http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/1169

Brought to you by: Rubin Museum of Art, Women’s Voices Now, The Paley Center for Media, and AMEJA

AMEJA is pleased to learn that honorary AMEJA board member Anthony Shadid and three other New York Times journalists, Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, and Stephen Farrell have been released from detention in Libya.  We wish their safe return to their families and colleagues.

AMEJA wishes that the detention of Shadid and his colleagues was an isolated incident, but we know all too well that journalists are often targeted by forces that do not want a story reported, or, as a a seemingly soft target to press organizations or governments to meet certain demands.

Given the fact that so many AMEJA members have connections to, or work in volatile parts of the world, it is an unfortunate reality that all too often, members and their journalist colleagues find themselves in dangerous or unsavory circumstances.

AMEJA is always concerned about detention, harassment, or violation of journalists everywhere.  Regardless of the reasons a government, group, or individuals might give for molesting journalists, AMEJA expects them to be afforded every protection they might be entitled to under law, whether local, national, or international.  And we expect that every effort be made to ensure their safety in any circumstance.

After over two weeks, the audacious people’s revolt against the Mubarak regime in Egypt seemed to be coming to a head. Despite a combination of brutal measures against demonstrators, proposed concessions by the government toward them, rumors, and confusing reports the protests continued in ebbs and flows. At moments, it seemed the opposition would break. Yet, the movement against the regime regained momentum, inspired by the human stories told on non-state media, and drawing new actions by labor unions and other syndicates around the country. Just before this announcement, Hosni Mubarak was expected to announce his departure from office.

Yet, in an unexpected twist, Mubarak stubbornly refused to go. Undoubtedly, the Egyptian people will react strongly to this obstinence. Regardless of what happens, the implications of these events for Egypt, the Middle East, and the rest of the world are profound. As part of its mission to provide intimate understanding of issues in the Middle East and North Africa, AMEJA is pleased to hold its second program on the revolt in Egypt. Joining us in conversation will be reporters on the ground in Egypt with analysis by Egypt specialist Professor Mona El-Ghobashy of Barnard College, New York. Please listen to this important broadcast.

Please join us at www.blogtalkradio.com/ameja or call in to +1 (646) 727-2779 on Friday, February 11, 2011, 11 AM EST

Listeners can participate through a Q&A following the discussion.

The program will be archived at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AMEJA

We hope you can listen and look forward to your participation in this and other BlogTalk broadcasts.

As part of our ongoing commitment to bringing you important perspectives on the unfolding events in the region, AMEJA has scheduled a BlogTalk Radio session on Egypt. The program will take place today, Monday, January 31, at 12noon, EST.   Participating live from Egypt will be:

Kareem Fahim, The New York Times, Currently reporting from Egypt
Tamer El-Ghobashy, Wall Street Journal, reporting from Egypt

The discussion will be moderated by Hoda Osman, incoming AMEJA Board President

Listeners will be able to ask questions via Ameja’s Twitter feed @AMEJA, the chatbox available on the BlogTalk link, and by phoning  the call-in number 646 727 2779.  Podcast is available after the show.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ameja/2011/01/31/egypt-a-peoples-revolt

Events following the ouster of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia are moving at a rapid pace, with multiple possibilities for the future, both inside Tunisia and as well North Africa and the Middle East.

To discuss the latest news happening on the ground, as well as broader, regional implications, AMEJA is proud to host a roundtable, with experts and AMEJA members in Tunisia and around the world.

Confirmed guests include:  Anthony Shadid and Kareem Fahim of the New York Times, Taoufiq Ben Amor of Columbia University, and others.

Please join us at www.blogtalkradio.com/ameja or call in to +1 (646) 727-2779 on Tuesday, January 18, at 12noon, EST.

Listeners can participate through a Q&A following the discussion.

The program will be archived at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AMEJA

We hope you can listen and look forward to your participation in this and other BlogTalk broadcasts.

The Somali Journalists Association Network (SOJANET) is reporting the injury of freelancer journalist Hassan Mohamed Abiikar known as Hassan Matore who was attacked by four unknown gunmen in Afgoye district in the Lower Shabelle region on Tuesday evening.

Matore was shot four times in the chest by the attackers and seriously injured. He was immediately rushed to the Daynile Hospital in Mogadishu
Explorations by the SOJANET and the local Journalists revealed there was a high intemperate fear for journalists being killed just for their transparency of reporting news in the Al shabaab and those Al Hisbul-Islam areas.

“Despite risks and dangers that Somali journalists face on a daily basis in Somalia, at least SOJANET should be happy to tell colleagues in Somalia that there will be a hope of a bright future for all Somalis including journalists who were experienced in almost 20 years of war, so let the journalists in Somalia move forward rather than be scattered in fear”, said SOJANET Secretary General Mohamed Mohamud Odowa

Somalia is Africa ’s deadliest country and dangerous place for foreign and local journalists that very little news escapes at all, SOJANET said.

Kidnap, torture and death are as much a part of journalists’ lives in many parts of the Somalia .

SOJANET is nonprofit Network and non-Governmental organization, but only serves and dedicated for Somali Journalists as well as the freedom of speech.

AMEJA Board Member Dalia Fahmy, a Business Writer based in New York, has been chosen as a 2010 ICFJ Arthur Burns Germany Fellow. As part of the fellowship, she will be in Berlin from August 4  until October 2 and is available for freelance assignments. Dalia specializes in real estate, small business, finance and personal finance. Her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, National Geographic Traveler and ABCNews.com. Prior to becoming a Freelancer, she produced business news at CNBC. Dalia speaks fluent German and has extensive experience covering European finance, economics and monetary policy.

AMEJA Board Member Tamer El-Ghobashy  joined the Wall Street Journal in July 2010 where he covers criminal justice for the Greater New York section. Previously, he was with NBC Local Integrated Media where he worked as a national editor for 10 news websites in markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

For Tamer, the job at the Journal represents a return to newspaper journalism. He spent eight years at the New York Daily News where he covered everything from local New York City news to national and international events including Hurricane Katrina, the 2006 war in Lebanon and wild fires in San Diego.  Congratulations Tamer!