Head of the Investigative Reporting Department (ARIJ) in Amman, is an internationally experienced media training expert with more than 20 years in-depth knowledge of the Arab media landscape. Hattar’s professional career started in 1988 with Agence France Press. From 1999 until 2010 he served as the BBC correspondent for Iraq. Since 2005, Hattar has taught media training courses in Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, and Sudan.
| 11:30 - 13:00 | PLUTO Room : Asking the Right Questions "A La Tim Sebastian"In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the tools of the trade from Tim Sebastian, the first presenter of the hard-hitting flagship news program HARDtalk shown on BBC World and the BBC News channel. He travelled all over the world for HARDTalk, interviewing kings, presidents, prime ministers, as well as authors, actors and musicians. Tim Sebastian left HARDTalk in 2006 but continues to ask the most difficult questions to hold those in power accountable to their deeds through the New Arab Debates, the region's free speech forum since 2011. His tough interview technique is the result of personal commitment to "accountability journalism" and detailed research. Moderators
Saad Hattar / JordanHead of the Investigative Reporting Department (ARIJ) in Amman, is an internationally experienced media training expert with more than 20 years in-depth knowledge of the Arab media landscape. Hattar’s professional career started in 1988 with Agence France Press. From 1999 until 2010 he served as the BBC correspondent for Iraq. Since 2005, Hattar has taught media training courses in Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, and Sudan. Speakers
Tim Sebastian / United KingdomThe founder and chairman of the Doha Debates and the New Arab Debates. He was previously a BBC foreign correspondent, based in Warsaw, Moscow and Washington, and has reported for BBC Television from more than 25 countries over a 30-year period. He is perhaps best known for being the first host of the BBC's flagship interview programme Hardtalk - for which he was twice named Interviewer of the Year by the Royal Television Society. Sebastian has also won the Society's Television Journalist of the Year award, as well as a British Academy award for contributions to factual television. He holds a BA in modern languages from Oxford University and is the author of eight novels and two non-fiction titles. |
