OPPORTUNITIES: Call for papers: Youth, Media, and the Politics of Change in North Africa

Call for papers: Youth, Media, and the Politics of Change in North Africa

28th Apr 2011

This special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication solicits theoretical and empirical papers on “Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and Power.”

The purpose of this special issue is to document ways in which the Maghreb countries of North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) provide vibrant and complex settings for studying the dynamics of change, creativity, and continuity as these societies continue to adjust to the current security, demographic and development challenges.

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NEWS: Arab Youth Criticize Government Media as it Doesn't Meet their Ambitions

SUNA A symposium titled "Young People in the Means of Mass Media" was held in Al-Fatih Tower yesterday as part of the activities conducted by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) in Khartoum these days.

The symposium attended by the chairperson of USBU in addition to the members of ASBU. The symposium affirmed that governmental TV channels in addition to other means of mass media sponsored by governments failed to meet young people's ambitions in the Arabic World.

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OPPORTUNITIES: Arab journalists can submit works on children's rights

Posted on: 04/08/2010 Children Deadline: 20/08/2010 Region: Middle East and North Africa

Arab journalists and photojournalists in the Middle East and North Africa can submit works to a UNICEF award on child's rights. Deadline to apply is August 20.

The competition is open to journalists working in print, broadcast and online journalism and photojournalism. Submitted work must be in English, Arabic or French.

The winners will be announced in November.

For more information, contact Reem Najjar at rnajjar@unicef.org

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NEWS / OPPORTUNITIES / AWARDS: Children rights competition open to Arab journalists

Posted on: 28/05/2010 Children Deadline: 20/08/2010 Region: Middle East and North Africa

Journalists from across the Arab world are invited to participate in a competition on children rights. Deadline to apply: August 20.

Interested applicants must submit reports published in Arab media outlets. Submissions must discuss the situation of children's rights in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Works can be submitted in English, Arabic or French.

For more information and to apply, e-mail Reem Najjar at rnajjar@unicef.org.

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NEWS / EVENTS: Tunisia to hold international symposium on ”Youth, Communication and Media”

TUNISIAONLINENEWS- The Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI) and the German foundation "Konrad Adenauer Stiftung" organizes from April 14 to 16 in Tunis, an international symposium on ''Youth, Communication and Media".

The meeting will be an opportunity to debate the relationship between youth and media. It will bring together researchers from Tunisia, Canada, the Arab world and Europe. Media executives, journalists and representatives of civil society will also take part in the event.

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PROJECTS: The Team (MOROCCO)

The Team in Morocco promotes the positive social transformation of disenfranchised communities through the fictionalized story of a Moroccan soccer/football* team and its players as they confront interpersonal and societal problems and challenges both on and off the field. The underlying goal is to provide young people from marginalized communities with positive messages that encourage active civic participation, tolerance, mutual understanding, and moderation.

By targeting young people, the show reaches out to the largest segment of Moroccan society. The median age of Moroccans is 25 years old, with 57 percent of the population below the age of 29, and 28 percent falling into the 15-to-29 age group.

The series is supported by a national outreach campaign led by 50 dialogue facilitators trained by Search for Common Ground in Morocco. The facilitators will host community sessions to discuss the issues tackled in the series. The Team in Morocco has launched a website – a social networking space at http://www.tanmia.ma/lequipe/ that incorporates an interactive blog, photos, videos and other links – and an extensive campaign to diffuse the show’s messages through the local press.

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NEWS / SOCIAL MEDIA: Maghreb youth join 'virtual community' (NORTH AFRICA)

2010-03-12 - The spread of the internet and the surge in social networking offer new opportunities for wider dialogue.

Rachid Jankari in Casablanca, Siham Ali in Rabat, Hayam El Hadi in Algiers, Jamel Arfaoui in Tunis and Mohamed Yahya Ould Abdel Wedoud in Nouakchott contributed to this report – 12/03/10

Social media is taking over the Maghreb.

"Facebook has become the only way that we can know what's going on around us," said Tunisian student Thamir al-Ayyadi.

Al-Ayyadi is one of a growing number of people worldwide who have come to rely on social media to find information and connect with others. Millions in the Maghreb are now using sites like Facebook and YouTube. Facebook, for instance, has 1.3 million users in Morocco alone.

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20th Cairo International Film Festival for Children

NEWS: Conference highlights role of youth in Tunisia’s media landscape (AFRICA)

TUNISIAONLINENEWS- A conference given on Tuesday by Mr Oussama Romdhani,
Acting Minister in Charge of Communication and Relations with the
Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Advisors, stressed the importance
Tunisia gives to associating young people to the country's media and
communication networks.

In his conference entitled "Youth and the global media landscape", Mr
Romdhani stressed the pertinence of President Ben Ali's prospective
approach to the Tunisian media scene, noting that the presidential
vision anticipated the changes that occurred on the global media scene
and notably the boom witnessed by satellite channels and the internet.
The Minister was addressing the winter university of RCD young cadres in
Sousse.

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