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Communications and Society Program
2008 Forum Participants
Seated: Rana Sabbagh, Mahmood Al-Yousif, Her Royal Highness Princess Rym, Walter Isaacson, Betsy Morgan, Daoud Kuttab
Standing (front row): Moukhtar Kocache, Mirette Mabrouk, Jamal Dajani, Joshua Fouts, Charlie Firestone, Merrill Brown, Akram Farag, Mohamed Gohar, Khaled Dawoud
Standing (back row): Osama Al-Sharif, Lawrence Pintak, Calvin Sims, Ali Abunimah, Barbara Slavin, Crocker Snow Jr., Jed Alpert, Caroline Little, Wael Abbas, Monroe Price, Nermeen Murad, Samih Toukan, Monika Lengauer, Amy Garmer.
Wael Abbas
Editor in Chief, Misr Digit@l
Ali Abunimah
Co-Founder, Electronicintifada.net
Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali
The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan
Jed Alpert
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mobile Commons, Inc.
Osama Al-Sharif
Columnist, Ad-Dustour, Amman
Mahmood N. Al-Yousif
Managing Director, Gulf Broadcast & Professional Systems
Merrill Brown
Founder & Principal, MMB Media LLC
Lynn Brucker
Director Corporate Strategy, Luminus Group
Jamal Dajani
Director of Middle Eastern Programming
LinkTV and Mosaic
Khaled Dawoud
Correspondent, Al Jazeera
Akram Farag
Executive Committee Member,
O-Media Holdings, Ltd.
Charles M. Firestone
Executive Director, Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
Joshua S. Fouts
Chief Global Strategist
Dancing Ink Productions
Amy K. Garmer
Director of Journalism Projects
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
Mohamed Gohar
Chairman, Video Cairo Sat
Walter Isaacson
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Aspen Institute
Moukhtar Kocache
Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa
Ford Foundation
Daoud Kuttab
Founder, AmmanNet, and Professor of Journalism
Princeton University
Monika Lengauer
Deputy Director, Jordan Media Institute
Caroline Little
Chief Executive Officer and Publisher
Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive
Mirette F. Mabrouk
Associate Director for Publishing Operations
The American University in Cairo Press
Betsy Morgan
Chief Executive Officer, Huffington Post
Nermeen Murad
Director, Jordan Media Institute
Lawrence Pintak
Director, Adham Center for Electronic Journalism
The American University in Cairo
Monroe Price
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Rana Sabbagh
Executive Director, Arab Reporters for
Investigative Journalism
Calvin G. Sims
Program Officer, News Media
Media, Arts & Culture, Ford Foundation
Barbara Slavin
Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
Crocker Snow
Founding Editor The World Paper, and
Director, Edward R. Murrow Center,
The Fletcher School
Samih Toukan
Chief Executive Officer, Maktoob.com
Staff
Kate Aishton
Project Manager, Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute