Nahar Ash-Shabab launchs its project under Afkar II program

On August 16, Nahar Al Shabab launched within the framework of Afkar II , its project “Active journalists for an inter-communal dialogue”  in a press conference held at the An Nahar Center for Training and Research during the first training session . 

                                   
                                    Dr. Kallas with the trainees

The Center’s president, Dr. Jean Karam, declared that the project’s dual objective is to “train young people on best journalism practices, spread the idea of inter-communal dialogue in Lebanon through 7 training sessions addressed to fresh graduates on professional journalism, organize 21 workshops in Beirut and other regions, and issue 12 monthly supplements written by the attendees of these sessions.”


                                    
                                     Dr. Jean Karam

The representative of Nahar Al Shabab president Ms. Nayla Tueni, Mr. Ziad Baroud, invited all journalists to observe and analyze and to cover news from the same angle, thereby confirming that “Lebanon is capable of handling its diversity despite the crisis it is currently going through.”

AFKAR program coordinator Youmna Chacar Ghorayeb highlighted the project’s three strengths: a) the necessity of an effective dialogue among society’s different communities, with a vital role played by NGOs, b) the struggle of the media, c) the role of the youth, who constitute society’s backbone, in helping civil society become aware of its causes, its choices, and its inclinations. 


                                            
                                           Ms. Lenka Vitovka

EU representative Linka Vitovka reaffirmed the EU’s support of the project and high expectations of positive outcomes. Addressing herself to the young journalists, she said, “We need to hear free and varied opinions and to read your many stories in the supplements.”