Madinat Jumeirah
Dubai, UAE
5-6 Dec. 2005

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Speakers

Speakers listed in alphabetical order

Ayman Abdel Nour
Editor-in-Chief
All4Syria

Loren Jenkins
Senior Foreign Editor
National Public Radio

Muna AbuSulayman
Executive Manager, Strategic Studies
Kingdom Holding Company

Ji Yuanhong
Editor-in-Chief
Technology Frontier, China Youth Daily

MJ Akbar
Editor-in-Chief
Asian Age

Jim Kelly
Managing Editor
TIME Magazine

Samar Akrouk
Production Director
MBC 1

Riz Khan
Show Host
Al Jazeera International

Saad al-Ajmi
Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information and Culture

Rami Khouri
Editor-at-Large
Daily Star

Nabil al-Dajani
Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department
American University of Beirut

Gisele Khoury
Presenter
Al Arabiya

Khaled al-Maeena
Editor-in-Chief
Arab News

Daoud Kuttab
Founder
AmmanNet

Abdul Rahman al-Rashed
General Manager
Al Arabiya

Joshua Landis
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Oklahoma

Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
Vice President
Iraq

Ma Xiaolin
CEO and Editor-in-Chief
ChinaBBS.com

Deborah Amos
Reporter
National Public Radio

Sheila MacVicar
Correspondent
CBS News

Jane Arraf
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Andrew Marshall
Senior Correspondent and Former Iraq Bureau Chief
Reuters

Stefan Aust
Editor-in-Chief
Der Spiegel

Hisham Melhem
Washington Correspondent
Annahar

Ammar Bakkar
Editor-in-Chief
Alarabiya.net

Pat Mitchell
President and CEO
Public Broadcasting Service

HRH Prince Faisal bin Salman
Chairman and CEO
Saudi Research & Marketing Group

Walid Moneimne
Senior Vice President, Customer & Market Operations
Nokia Networks

HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Entrepreneur and Investor

Amr Moussa
Secretary General
League of Arab States

Ethan Bronner
Deputy International News Editor
The New York Times

Jamil Mroue
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Daily Star

Diana Buttu
Communications Director
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Samia Nakhoul
Gulf Bureau Chief
Reuters

Eric Case
Program Manager, Blogger
Google

Jehane Noujaim
Producer, Control Room
Noujaim Films

Raj Chengappa
Managing Editor
India Today

Mike Oreskes
Executive Editor
International Herald Tribune

Pete Clifton
Head
BBC News Interactive

Gordon Robison
Director, Middle East Media Project
USC Center on Public Diplomacy

John Clippinger
Senior Fellow
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Abdulaziz Sager
Chairman
Gulf Research Center

Geoffrey Cowan
Dean
USC Annenberg School

Paul Salem
Director
Fares Foundation

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
British Ambassador to the Kingdom Saudi Arabia

Youssef Samaha
Editor-in-Chief
As-Safir

Peter David
Foreign Editor
The Economist

Naguib Sawiris
Chairman and CEO
Orascom

Samar Fatany
Talk Show Host
Radio Jeddah

Danny Schechter
Executive Editor
MediaChannel.org

Hassan Fattah
Middle East Correspondent
The New York Times

S. Abdallah Schleifer
Editor
Transnational Broadcasting Studies

Charles Firestone
Executive Director, Communications and Society Program
Aspen Institute

Janbulat Shikay
Manager
Al-Rai-Alaam

John Gage
Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office
Sun Microsystems

Hani Shukrallah
Research Consultant
Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies

Thomas D. Gardner
Senior Vice President and President, International
The Reader's Digest Association

Zafar Siddiqi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CNBC Arabiya

Anwar Gargash
Executive Director
Gargash Enterprises L.L.C.

Barbara Slavin
Senior Diplomatic Reporter
USA TODAY

Nik Gowing
World Presenter
BBC

Crocker Snow Jr.
Director
Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy

Joseph Hanania
Managing Director
Hewlett-Packard Middle East

Samih Toukan
Chief Executive Officer
Maktoob.com

Saad Hariri
Member of Parliament
Lebanese Republic

Edward Walker Jr
President and CEO
Middle East Institute

Omar Hijazi
CEO
Tejari

Xiong Lei
Managing Editor
China Features, Xinhua News Agency

David Ignatius
Associate Editor and Columnist
The Washington Post

Jonathan Zilli
CEO and Founder
Zilli Films

Fadi Ismail
General Manager
03 Productions