Ahmed bin Mohammed attends the opening of the 20th session of the "Arab Media Forum"

Under the generous patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, will witness tomorrow the opening of the "Arab Media Forum", which is celebrated in this session On the 20th anniversary of its launch, it will be held in Madinat Jumeirah - Dubai from 4-5 October, with the participation of more than 3,000 government officials, leaders of Emirati, Arab and international media institutions, newspaper editors-in-chief, senior writers, thinkers and stakeholders in the media sector throughout the Arab world, as part of the media event. The largest of its kind in the region.

His Highness will also witness the Arab Media Awards ceremony, in its twenty-first session, where the winners of the prize categories included in the “Arab Press Award”, “Visual Media Award” and “Digital Media Award” from all over the Arab world will be honored, as well as honoring "Media Personality of the Year", whose award is granted by a decision of the award's board of directors to a person who has contributed to enriching the Arab media scene.

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum expressed his welcome to all the forum's guests and media participants from various brotherly Arab countries, as well as the international media leaders participating in the forum as he celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch of its first session, stressing that Dubai was keen throughout that period to prepare All the conditions for the success of this annual dialogue, with all its values ​​and impact in analyzing the media situation and linking it to the surrounding transformations at the regional and international levels, in an effort to develop visions that would help push the media development process forward from Dubai, which has always worked to launch initiatives and projects that support the media to enable it to To carry out his mission in the service of the Arab human being wherever he is.

His Highness called on the participants to put their successful experiences and creative ideas on the discussion table in order to spread benefit and enhance cooperation in the advancement of media in the Arab region in general, and to discover new areas for development, whether in its technical scope or at the level of human cadres and media talents, and to create more ways To graduate new generations of Arab media cadres capable of pioneering development, by owning technology and harnessing it in a way that enhances the competitiveness of Arab media, and earns the Arab media producer a prominent position on the global media map.

The forum’s work will continue over two days of specialized discussion within a number of main and discussion sessions, twenty-minute sessions, in addition to workshops, through which a large number of topics related to the media’s ability to present a beneficial message will help the Arab world face the challenges surrounding it. It enhances his chances in the future.

The Dubai Press Club, the organizer of the Arab Media Forum, had previously announced the details of the agenda for the twentieth session of the largest and most important media event of its kind in the region. The future of media", where the discussion will address the various sectors of the media from various aspects, with the participation of a selection of speakers.

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