jordan – Frontline Club

How to Report on the Middle East

Vaughan Smith — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:18:19 +0000

Join our panel to discuss how Anglo-American mainstream media is consistently mis-understanding Muslims and the Arab world in its reporting. The discussion will look into how the UK and US must do more to recognise the diversity between nations in the Middle East.

Holy Lands: Sectarianism in the Middle East

Phoebe Hall — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:42:28 +0000

Sectarian divides increasingly fuel conflict across the diverse countries of the Middle East, spilling over borders and contributing to ongoing violence in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. Yet in the nineteenth century the region was considerably more tolerant than Western Europe at the time; a high degree of religious pluralism and self-determination were permitted across the Ottoman Empire's wide-reaching territories. We will be joined by The Economist's Jerusalem correspondent Nicolas Pelham and others to discuss the roots of sectarian violence - as well as hopes for recovery from conflict and a return to plurality.

War Zone Freelance Exhibition – The Story Behind the News

Frontline Bloggers — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:35:09 +0000

By Thomas Colson A panel of freelance journalists and photographers joined an audience at the Frontline Club on Thursday 28 January 2016 to discuss the story behind a new exhibition of freelance war photography. Osie Greenway, Anne Alling, Benjamin Hiller and Jeffry Ruigendijk introduced photography and footage from their time in the Middle East – particularly Iraq, Syria and Lebanon […]

Gordon Brown, Julia Gillard & Kevin Watkins Discuss Funding Education for Syrian Child Refugees

Frontline Bloggers — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:14:40 +0000

By Charlotte Beale United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined chair of the Global Partnership for Education and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Overseas Development Institute’s Executive Director Kevin Watkins at the Frontline Club on 25 January 2016 to discuss Funding for Syrian Child Refugees, on […]

In the Picture with Giles Duley: “Anti-War Photographer”

Frontline Bloggers — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:09:16 +0000

By Ratha Lehall On Wednesday 18 November, the Frontline Club hosted photographer Giles Duley to discuss the themes and individual images in his latest project, One Second of Light. Duley was joined by Roger Tatley, director at the Marian Goodman Gallery, and Jon Levy, a photo editor currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). One Second of […]

Yallah!: Underground Music in the Middle East

Frontline Bloggers — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:40:15 +0000

By Ratha Lehall On Monday 16 November, the Frontline Club hosted a screening of the documentary Yallah! Underground, a vibrant look at a diverse groups of Arab artists and musicians using culture to challenge the status quo. The film is set in the years prior to and during the Arab spring, and focuses on artists from […]

Blurred Borders: The Consequences of Over-Spill from Conflict in Syria

Frontline Bloggers — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:46:47 +0000

by Sally Ashley-Cound On Thursday 6 February at the Frontline Club, Dan Smith, secretary general of International Alert, chaired a panel which discussed the impact of the war in Syria on the surrounding states. Smith asked the panel what could be done to improve the situation in the region? Julien Barnes-Dacey, who was based in Syria […]

POSTPONED Jordan’s Secret Shame

Millicent Teasdale — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:00:00 +0000

ORGANISED BY BBC ARABIC

Followed by a Q&A with undercover reporter Hanan Khandagji

BBC Arabic investigation has uncovered cases where children had been seriously injured in Jordan's private care homes for the mentally disabled. The film also uncovers allegations of sexual abuse at one private care home. Hanan Khandagji is the undercover reporter who produced BBC Arabic's investigative documentary Jordan's Secret Shame. The film explores care homes abuse of disable children in Jordan, which received massive media coverage as well as a reaction from the public and the Jordanian government alike.

ForesightNews world briefing: upcoming events 16 – 22 January

Vaughan Smith — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:51:17 +0000

A weekly round up of world events from Monday, 16 to Sunday, 22 January from Foresight News By Nicole Hunt IMF, European Central Bank and EU officials are scheduled to arrive in Athens on Monday to conduct a week-long assessment mission of Greece’s debt-reduction measures. Everyone will be hoping the troika visit goes better this […]

Battle of the Queens

Sakhr Al-Makhadhi — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:35:20 +0000

The YouTube Queen of Jordan has taken another step towards becoming the world’s most technologically connected Royal. She’s now posting minute-by-minute updates on Twitter. In a couple of days she’s rocketed up from a handful of followers to around four thousand. So far, we’ve heard of her ariel acrobatics, as her husband pilots the royal […]