Panelists
Rami G. Khouri, a 2001 Nieman Fellow, has been involved in news media in the Arab world for the past 40 years. He is based at the American University of Beirut and writes a twice-weekly column internationally syndicated by Agence Global.
Amahl Bishara is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University, where she teaches on human rights, media and the Middle East. She is completing an ethnography on U.S. news during the second Palestinian Intifada.
Sabah Hamamou is deputy business editor at Al-Ahram newspaper and founder of Masrawyya—Egyptian Media Hub, a start-up website for new media. She is author of “Diary of a Journalist at Al-Ahram,” being published this fall.
Moderator
Melissa Ludtke, a 1992 Nieman Felllow, has been editor of
Nieman Reports, a quarterly magazine and website about journalism, since 1998. She was previously a reporter for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Time magazine.