Date : 01/02/2010
MANAMA, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- Bahraini minister of culture and media Sheikha Mai
bint Mohammad Al-Khalifa hailed here Monday the first pioneers of Bahraini
journalism and their contribution to the advancement of the Bahraini
journalism.
The top Bahraini cultural official asserted in a ceremony held here today
by the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council states for honoring the first pioneers of
the Bahraini press that journalism is the basis upon which all the overarching
achievement of the Arab Gulf states is rested.
Sheikha Mai added that, "Journalism should enjoy freedom which has the
responsible view that advances and develops the society as one of its most
important requirements."
Meanwhile, head of the GCC Press Federation Turki Al-Sudairi asserted that
the press in Bahrain offered a very positive model of the journalistic career
in the Arab Gulf states, pointing out that the most important characteristic
of the Arab Gulf journalism in general is being not a party of the existing
inter-Arab disagreements.
Al-Sudairi said that, "Bahrain is a country that dedicated itself to
culture and the social development relatively earlier than other Arab Gulf
states and this included the development of the Bahraini journalism that could
support the political and social development."
On his part, secretary general of the GCC Press Federation Nasser Al-Othman
asserted that the federation's endeavors toward honoring the pioneering
figures of the GCC journalism will continue.
Al-Othman added that, "This will be a historical and documentary frame of
reference for those poineers who contributed to enriching journalism in the
GCC states."
He pointed out that honoring the pioneers of the Bahraini press comes as
part of a big project that was approved by the general secretariat of the
federation during the Doha meeting in March 2009 and it provided for honoring
those pioneers in the six GCC states plus Yemen.
Finally, the ceremony included honoring 14 of the founding fathers of the
Bahraini press including Abdullah Al-Zayed, Mahmoud Al-Mardi, Ali Sayar,
Hassan Jawad Al-Jashi, Abdullah Al-Wazan, Ibrahim Hassan Kamal, Abdullah
Al-Madni , Abdul Rahman Asheer, Ahmad Yateem, Muhammed Qassem Al-Shirawi,
Ibrahim Ali Al-Ibrahim, Ahmad Salman Kamel, Khalifa Qassem, Taqai Al-Baharna.
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