Communications and Society Program

December 2005 Arab-US Media Forum
group photo and participant list

December 2005 Arab-US Media Forum group photo and participant list

The Aspen Institute
Arab-US Media Forum
Covering the Other:  Intolerance and Bigotry
in American and Arab Media
December 2-5, 2005
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Final Participant List

Emad El Din Adeeb
Chairman & CEO
Good News Group
Lamis Andoni
Consultant
Al-Jazeera Satellite
Geoffrey Cowan
Dean
Annenberg School of Communications
University of Southern California
Mona Eltahawy
Columnist
Asharq al-Aswat
Steven Erlanger
Jerusalem Bureau Chief
The New York Times
Akram E. Farag
Chairman & Managing Director
Digital Systems Middle East SAE
Charles M. Firestone
Executive Director
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
Jon Funabiki
Deputy Director
Media, Arts and Culture
The Ford Foundation
Emad Gad
Secretary General
Arabs Against Discrimination
Daniel Hertzberg
Deputy Managing Editor
The Wall Street Journal
David Ignatius
Associate Editor
   and
Columnist
The WashingtonPost
Ali Jaber
Consultant
Dubai Media Inc.
Loren Jenkins
Senior Foreign Editor
National Public Radio
Suad Joseph
Director
Middle East/South Asia Studies
   and
Professor of Anthropology and
   Women and Gender Studies
University of California, Davis
Ossama Kamal
Anchor and Presenter
Egyptian TV
Mirette F. Mabrouk
Publisher
Egyptian Media Services
International Herald Tribune/The Daily
   Star Egypt
Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau Chief
An-Nahar
  and
Senior Analyst
Al Arabia

Jamil Mroue
Editor-in-Chief
The Daily Star
Lawrence Pintak
Director
Adham Center for Electronic Journalism
The American University in Cairo
Emma Playfair
Representative
Middle East and North Africa
The Ford Foundation
Salama Ahmed Salama
Columnist
Al Ahram Daily
Al Galaa Street
Hussein Shobokshi
Journalist/Media Consultant
Asharq Al Awsat
   and Al Arabiya
Hani Shukrallah
Research Consultant
Al-Ahram Centre for Political
   and Strategic Studies
Al-Ahram Building
Smita Singh
Special Advisor for Global Affairs
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Kevin Sites
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
Yahoo! News
Barbara Slavin
Senior Diplomatic Reporter
USAToday
Terence Smith
Special Correspondent
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Crocker Snow
Founding Editor
The World Paper
    and
Director
Edward R. Murrow Center
The Fletcher School
William K. Spindle
Middle East Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Staff:
Maria Medrano
Project Manager
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
Mridulika Menon
Project Manager
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute