AEZ-Bulgaria invites Bulgarian journalists and media specialists to participate in a webinar with the American journalist of Palestinian origin Rami Khouri. He has over 50 years of experience in topics related to Middle East issues. The conversation will focus on the coverage of the war in Gaza and will be held online on April 29 at 19:00. The event will be moderated by Dimitar Kenarov, a journalist and writer who has covered the conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine.
According to Reporters Without Borders, 105 journalists have lost their lives in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to date, with at least 22 of them killed in the line of duty. Against the backdrop of unprecedented casualties, calls from international journalistic organizations and human rights groups to ensure the protection of journalists and civilians, as well as working conditions in the field for local and foreign reporters, remain unanswered.
Is adequate coverage of the war in Gaza even possible? What are the main challenges for journalists seeking the truth in the bloody conflict? What is the important local context that foreign media and journalists often miss? What’s ahead? These are some of the questions to which we will seek answers with Rami Khoury.
Participation in the webinar is free, but registration is required. Please complete the form by 4pm on April 29th and you will receive a link to enter. A translation into Bulgarian is planned.
About Rami Khoury
Rami Khoury is a Jordanian and American citizen from a Palestinian Christian family. He is the founder and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB). At this university he also teaches journalism. He is a member of the advisory board for the journalism department of Northwestern University in Doha and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Arab Center in Washington. In 2002, he became a Nieman Foundation Fellow at Harvard University.
For Dimitar Kenarov
Dimitar Kenarov is a freelance writer, poet and journalist. He graduated from the American College in Sofia and studied at the University of Berkeley, California. His thesis on the poetry of WH Auden and Joseph Brodsky was awarded three academic prizes. He has worked for publications such as Esquire, Nation, Foreign Policy, New York Times, etc. His travelogues have been selected three times for the annual Best American Travelogues anthology. Author of the Bulgarian poetry collections “Journey to the Kitchen” (2001) and “Apocryphal Animals” (2010), as well as the collection “Dictators, Tractors and Other Adventures” (2023). He is currently working on the first English-language biography of Georgi Markov, which is about to be published by the American publishing house “Grove/Atlantic”.
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