His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, accompanied by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation Dubai Media, and His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, the celebration held by the "Dubai Press Club" today at its new headquarters on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its founding, as well as the ceremony to receive Dubai Shield, the Arab Media Capital for the year 2020, in the presence of a number of Excellencies, Arab Information Ministers.

On this occasion, His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Media Council, affirmed that the UAE has throughout its history been keen to use its energies and expertise in supporting the comprehensive development efforts in the Arab world, as the Arab interest in general remains one of the main goals it considers Our country is in the greatest aspect of the major initiatives and achievements it has made, whose positive impact extends beyond its borders, to the brothers in all regions of the region, to give it its due position as a partner in making the future of the world.

His Highness said: "We have earned the trust of Arab and international media organizations with an open approach and a conscious awareness of the significance of the noble message expressed by each owner of an honorable pen and a message free of any subjective purpose ... Today, Dubai establishes its position as a pivotal media center for Arab and international media ... The success of our partnership with the media It is based on mutual respect and a shared desire to lay the foundations for a better tomorrow, in which everyone will enjoy the good and the prosperous. "

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Media Council, expressed Dubai's pride in being chosen as the capital of Arab media in the year 2020, stressing that the council will work for the success of all efforts aimed at making this year a milestone in the field of Arab media work. The coming period will witness an intensification of cooperation with the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States on proposed ideas and initiatives and ways to expand the circle of media use thereof at the Arab level.

His Highness sent a greeting of appreciation to everyone who contributes to highlighting the bright face of our Arab media and exalting his lofty message, stressing that the media is one of the sectors that most closely touches the lives of people and has the deepest impact on their reality and future, with what this calls for to provide all the elements that help the media to fulfill its obligations towards Arab societies, by throwing Highlighting its aspirations for a future full of opportunities, discussing the challenges that hinder it and helping it to overcome them and overcome the obstacles that it brings towards discovering the opportunities for success and determining the requirements to achieve them.

In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and next to him His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, I received the Vice President and Managing Director of the Dubai Council Media Director of the Dubai Press Club, Mona Ghanem Al-Murri, from the General Supervisor of Media Planning and Supervision at the Ministry of Information in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dr. Khalid bin Abdul Qadir Al-Ghamdi, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary-General supervising the Media and Communication Sector at the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, Ambassador Dr. Qais Al-Azzawi, the shield of the capital of advertising Arab M ", which Dubai will maintain throughout the year 2020 as a successor to the city of Riyadh, based on the decision of the Council of Arab Information Ministers in appreciation of Dubai's position and its important contributions over the years in serving the Arab media and in support of its development in line with the aspirations of comprehensive development in our Arab world.

The ceremony was attended by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Supreme President of Emirates Airlines and the group, and Minister of Cabinet and Future Affairs Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Sheikh Walid bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, Chairman of the Board of MBC Group and a group of leaders The media and editor-in-chief of Emirati, Arab and international newspapers.
Development process.

The ceremony started with the presentation of a short documentary film that addressed the first launch of the Dubai Press Club in the month of November 1999, based on the idea and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as His Highness wanted him as a forum for media professionals and economic, political, scientific and cultural actors and influential in the world, and a center for thought radiation and a forum Culturally and scientifically, cultures and ideas converge, and one of the tributaries of the media is appointed to carry out its mission.

The film presented a set of important milestones that the club went through in a career that lasted for 20 years, during which the club put a clear imprint on the Arab media page.

After that, Mona Al-Murry gave a speech in which she welcomed the guests and during which she touched on the media development march that Dubai has fought for many years, in which the Dubai Press Club had a large share of its accomplishments, enumerating the signs of success of the media development journey in Dubai, which was aimed at A large part of them is to create a supportive atmosphere for media institutions, whether local or Arab, as well as global, and has produced a strong media industry that represents today an important tributary of the tributaries of diversification of the local economy.

Mona Al-Murry reviewed the backgrounds of the Dubai Press Club, under the direction of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, after his Highness met during one of his field trips to inspect the conditions of people, a crew working for German TV filming to prepare a program on Dubai in view of the great interest of German tourism on it and interest A wide sector of the Germans visited, as His Highness wished them success in their mission, and after hours, His Highness ordered the establishment of an integrated media center to provide specialized services to local, Arab and international media crews.

She said that the past twenty years have witnessed many important developments with which Dubai has accompanied the global development in the field of media and has reserved for itself an advanced position in this field through projects and initiatives, most notably the establishment of "Dubai Press Club" and the launch of the "Arab Press Award" the most important Arab forum to celebrate excellence. Journalist throughout the region, and the "Arab Media Forum", which over the past eighteen sessions has hosted more than 30,000 participants from intellectuals, writers, editors-in-chief and leaders of Arab and international media institutions, as well as new media makers who the forum has not neglected to involve in A comprehensive discussion covering various aspects of Arab media work, both traditional and new, in addition to establishing the “Arab Social Media Pioneers Club” to keep pace with the growing influence of communication platforms and keen to use this influence in a positive manner that serves the peoples of the region, as well as the launch of the Arab Social Media Pioneers Summit and the Communication Pioneers Award. The Arabs "in recognition of every creator who uses communication platforms in an effective manner to serve Arab societies.

The Deputy Chairman of Dubai Media Council noted that the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum twenty years ago was the basis from which Dubai started towards media leadership. His Highness directed the establishment of a media city and an Internet city, where His Highness anticipated early on that the future will witness a merger between the media And technology, which is what we really see around us today, noting that this clear future vision was one of the most important reasons for Dubai's success as a media center that today includes more than 4000 media companies covering all disciplines, as the establishment of Dubai Media City followed the launch of "Studio City" as a regional platform for Arab and international companies It is concerned with the fields of satellite broadcasting, media production, cinema, television and music, and today thousands of specialists work in these fields, and "Media Production City" is to provide a supportive environment for institutions and entrepreneurs within the local and international publishing and printing sectors, in response to the increasing demand for this supportive environment that provides the best types of structure The infrastructure, flexible regulatory frameworks and supportive services that allow the building and growth of networks of relationships and cooperation between the various components of this society.

During her speech, Mona Al-Marri stressed that Dubai is continuing to develop its media capabilities, whether in the local media or in the context of its contribution to bringing the Arab media to new horizons of excellence, especially with its choice as the capital of the Arab media, and said that the decision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, The directives of His Highness to establish the "Dubai Media Council" headed by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is a new impetus in the direction of enhancing the media landscape, as the council will act as a driving force for setting a media strategy for the Emirate of Dubai, and to contribute to the development of a media strategy for the UAE and the Arab region in the light of Vision Ambitious to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, patron of the renaissance of Arab media.

The speech of the President of the Dubai Press Club was followed by a short film that reviewed the stages of the development of the media landscape in Dubai and the great transformations that the media community went through in a short period not exceeding twenty years, starting with the launch of the Dubai Press Club in the year 1999 and through the various stations that established Dubai through each of them. A new cornerstone in its media edifice, which continues to be raised from today.

Dubai logo, the capital of Arab media

Dubai Press Club revealed the slogan "Dubai, the capital of Arab media", designed by Emirati creator Reem Al Shamsi, a student in the final year at the American University in Dubai and is studying design, which was adopted in the design on the phrase "Dubai, the capital of Arab media" in both Arabic and English, using the two colors Black and white and broad and sharp lines in symbolic through these two colors and the strong presence of Arabic calligraphy on the clarity of the importance of the clarity of the media message and not including shades of colors that may hinder the recipient from realizing the facts as they are, and an expression of Dubai's strength in this field and its strong and prominent presence in the yard Or Arab.

The celebration held by the Dubai Press Club in its new headquarters located in One Central, Dubai World Trade Center, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its founding and the celebration of Dubai receiving the shield of the Arab Media Capital for the year 2020, was attended by a group of leaders of local and Arab media institutions, writers and editors of local and Arab newspapers As everyone expressed their sincere wishes to the Emirate of Dubai and the Dubai Press Club with further progress and success and all the best in providing more initiatives that would support the media sector.