Qatar: Al Jazeera to set media forum in April

The Director-General of Al Jazeera Network announced that the channel will inaugurate its third annual media forum in April in Qatar, the Peninsula reported. He said that the assembly's agenda will include many sessions and open debates on several topics related to media in the Middle East particularly in hotspot areas and conflict regions as well as exploring the exceeding influence of politics on media and vice-versa, media's reliability during war times and the role of media in connecting people from all over the world.Moreover, the forum will also provide the attendees with the chance to co-work, network and benefit from the expertise from the international media community, he pointed out. The forum will open under the title Media and the Middle East: Beyond the Headlines.