Communications and Society Program

March 2004 Arab-US Media Forum participant list

The Aspen Institute
Arab-US Media Forum
Through the Looking Glass:
American and Arab Media
March 14-16, 2004
Mövenpick Hotel § Luxor, Egypt

Final Participant List

Mr. Mostafa Al-Hosseiny
Freelance Columnist

Mr. Osama Al Sherif
Editor-in-Chief
Ad-Dustour

Ms. Barbara Cochran
President
Radio-Television News Directors Association

Mr. John Cochran
Correspondent
ABC News

Mr. Kenneth Cooper
National Editor
The Boston Globe

Mr. Jamal Dajani
Director of Middle East Programming
and
News Producer
Link TV

Mr. Khaled Dawoud
Correspondent
Al-Ahram International

Ms. Basma El Husseiny
Director
Al Mawred Al Thaqfy

Mr. Steven Erlanger
Culture Editor
New York Times

Ms. Caroline Faraj
Editor
CNNArabic.com

Mr. Charles M. Firestone
Executive Director
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Mr. Jon Funabiki
Deputy Director
Media, Arts and Culture
The Ford Foundation

Mr. David Ignatius
Associate Editor
and
Columnist
The Washington Post

Mr. Walter Isaacson
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Aspen Institute

Mr. Gary Kamiya
Co-Founder and Executive Editor
Salon.com

Mr. Mustapha Karkouti
Freelance Writer, Commentator, and Media Consultant

Mr. Moukhtar Kocache
Program Officer
Media, Arts, and Culture
The Ford Foundation

Mr. Daoud Kuttab
Director
Al Quds Educational TV

Ms. Mirette F. Mabrouk
Publishing Director
International Business Associates

Mr. Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau Chief
As-Safir
and
Senior Analyst
Al Arabia

Ms. Emma Playfair
Representative, Middle East and North Africa
The Ford Foundation

Mr. Monroe Price
Howard M. Squadron Program in Media, Law, and Society
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Yeshiva University

Mr. Mohamed Salmawy
Editor-in-Chief
Al Ahram Hebdo

Mr. Hussein Shobokshi
Journalist/Media Consultant
Asharq Al Awsat

Mr. Hani Shukrallah
Managing Editor
Al Ahram Weekly

Ms. Smita Singh
Special Advisor for Global Affairs
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Mr. Crocker Snow
Founding Editor The World Paper
President
Money Matters Institute

Mr. Paul Steige
Managing Editor
Wall Street Journal

Mr. Edward Walker
President
Middle East Institute

Staff:

Ms. Amy Korzick Garmer
Director of Journalism Projects
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Ms. Patricia Kelly
Assistant Director
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Mr. Mohamed Yousri
Program Associate
The Ford Foundation