Zain participates in Arab Media Forum inauguration
26/04/2017 05:46 AST
Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced its participation in the inauguration ceremony of the 14th edition of the Arab Media Forum. The company is the Diamond sponsor of the event, which came under the patronage and attendance of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah. HE the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Deputy Minister of Information Sheikh Mohammed Al Abdullah Al Sabah visited Zain's booth at the event, where he expressed his admiration of Zain's strategic partnership of the Arab Media Forum during the past six consecutive years.
The company is keen on enriching media involvement, being a leading private sector company in the country. The opening day witnessed the attendance of many Arab ministers, journalists, and media personalities, including HE the Bahraini Minister of Information Ali Al Rumaihi, HE the Omani Minister of Information Dr Abdulmonem Al Hosni, HE the former Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Benaissa, and more.
The first day program witnessed a number of seminars, workshops, and discussion panels related to media, featuring many of the event's most prominent attendees, including Saudi Professor of Psychology Dr Treq Al Habib, Saudi media personality Lujain Omran, Emirati singer Ahlam, Lebanese media personality Raaghda Shalhoob, Jordanian media personality Ola Faris, and more. Zain participated in the forum through its dedicated booth, where the company hosted and interviewed a number of prominent guests and livestreamed the interviews on its official YouTube channel.
The company was keen on utilizing the latest telecommunications tools to document the event, further highlighting the big role social media plays nowadays in communities all around the world. Zain's strategic partnership of this forum highlights its social commitment, as the company believes in the importance of the role press and media plays in the development of communities.
Zain will continue supporting this very important sector which carries significant and informative messaging to the public at large and the communications world as a whole. The Arab Media Forum has proven itself to be one of the region's most prominent events that attend to Arab media. Since 2003, the event brought together many ministers, editors-in-chief of local and regional newspapers, media executives, journalists, academics, authors, actors, businessmen, and social figures from all around the Arab world.
The 14th edition of the Forum will also feature a special exhibition dedicated to media and technology communications, which is expected to witness the attendance of nearly 1000 distinguished media personalities from Arab and foreign media institutions that were specially invited to this event. The Arab Media Forum was founded in Kuwait in 2003 with the aim of developing Arab media. The forum holds a number of events and activities throughout the Arab world, and features the participation of Information Ministers, media personalities, public and private media bodies, and more.
Arab Times
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