APR 29, 2012
Saudi Arabia and Egypt: Is it a battle for leadership?
MENA FN.com
The only power Egypt once has had is the "soft power," specifically the propaganda machine and translated literary production in the areas of humanities and social sciences. Again, Egypt lost their soft power to Gulf countries either in the fields of media or literary production, particularly to Saudi Arabia (MBC, Al Arabiya, and other media outlets), Qatar (Al Jazeera), and United Arab Emirates.
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APR 26, 2012
Iraq-style “Romeo and Juliet” premieres in Europe
Global Post
An Iraqi adaption of Shakespeare's famous love story opens at the playwright's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon tonight, marking the European premiere of "Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad," according to the World Shakespeare Festival.
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APR 26, 2012
Kuwait- ‘Public diplomacy affected by social sites’
MENAFN
The Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) hosted a seminar on Public Diplomacy on Tuesday evening, with Canadian Ambassador, Douglas George and Computer Linguistics Professor Salah Najem.The seminar was moderated by Dr Nada Al-Muttawa...
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APR 25, 2012
U.S.-Syrian Superhero “Silver Scorpion” Debuts as MTV Web Series
Hollywood Reporter
Liquid Comics and the Open Hands Initiative, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to public diplomacy efforts, on Wednesday announced the launch of the Silver Scorpion animated Web series on MTV Voices.... the wheelchair-bound Silver Scorpion is the brainchild of a group of 26 American and Syrian youths with disabilities who convened for a Youth Ability Summit in Damascus over a year ago.
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APR 22, 2012
Bahrain’s Protesters Fail But Win
Take Five Blog
The Al Khalifa family...hoped the race would reverse its public diplomacy fortunes and once again depict the Kingdom as a progressive (in relative terms of course) financial, cultural and sports center. It tried to put to replace the images of political repression from a year ago. Instead, it only updated them.
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