Al Boom - Future of the Emirates
Online Portal of the 6th German-Arab Journalists' Academy
Also available in Deutsch
KAS Regional Programme Gulf States conducted the 6th Annual German-Arab Journalists' Academy in Abu Dhabi in October 2011. Eight scholars from the KAS journalism programme in Germany worked together with eight young journalists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Together they explored new reporting and narrative styles and created a multi-media online portal titled: "Al Boom - Future of the Emirates"! The website is now live and can be found at:
Featured stories include an exclusive report on the first inofficial session of the newly elected Federal National Council (FNC) of the UAE, which one of the teams was able to attend. They seized this opportunity and interviewed some of the new FNC-member about their political goals. Other stories explre the question of national identity in the run-up to the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the UAE.
We, the responsible team behind the seminar, hope you enjoy these and all other videos, audios and photo-slideshows as well as all articles.
Thomas Birringer and the KAS-Abu Dhabi Team; the chief-editorial board with Jochen Markett, Tina Bettels and multimedia-assistant Marc Röhlig; as well as the 16 members of the editorial team
Publication series
Event contributions
published
Abu Dhabi, March 7, 2012
Contact
Otmar Oehring
Head of the KAS office in Jordan and Head of the KAS Regional Programme Gulf States (temp.)
