PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

APR 4, 2008
Four new documentaries aim to promote tourism
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
The Tourism Ministry and Lebanon Daleel Association launched four cultural and tourist documentaries by Lebanese producer and director Fouad Khoury on Thursday, displaying Lebanon's nature, sports activities, cuisine and archeological sites in an effort to promote tourism in Lebanon.  Read more...

APR 4, 2008
Dave Marash: Why I Quit
Columbia Journalism Review
I think that Al Jazeera English is a very competent, very professional news organization that does a particularly great job south of the equator, but tends to report almost everything from the point of view of either the Arabic-speaking world or at the very least what you might call the post-colonial world. And since I’m not authentically those things, I don’t belong there.  Read more...

APR 4, 2008
RFE/RL Report: Al-Qaeda Media Network Threatened
RFE/RL
A landmark RFE/RL study on the nexus of ties and coordination between the global network of al-Qaeda affiliates argues that the marketing techniques that catapulted Al-Qaeda to worldwide fame are rapidly becoming obsolete as user-created content sweeps the Web.   Read more...

APR 3, 2008
Hybl heads Washington commission
KOAA
Bill Hybl is the new Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. He was sworn in earlier this week by Vice President Dick Cheney in Washington, D.C.  Read more...

APR 3, 2008
China’s Neighbors Feel Its Expanding Power
NPR
China is using the “soft power”of culture and ideas to make friends all over the region. One example is a Chinese language and cultural center at Mae Fh Luang University in northern Thailand. Several graceful, pagoda-like buildings set around a pond form a center that was built and paid for by the Chinese government. “Very clever. They are very clever,” says Vanchai Sirichana, the university’s president. “They understand the way of life here…using friendship as a spearhead to do the business. And it’s working…”  Read more...

APR 3, 2008
It’s not a scholarship, but a ‘school-a-ship’
Turkish Daily News
Dreams of visiting distant lands have come true for students aboard The Scholar Ship, a cruise liner that was turned into a school ship. What sets this one apart from many other school ships is that it is the first “International School Ship,” a joint program between universities from seven countries.  Read more...

APR 3, 2008
‘Kingdom-India Strategic Relationship Need of Hour’
Arab News
Several proposals were presented at the meeting to promote Saudi-India strategic relationship. Those included setting up of an exclusive Indo-Arab University, motivating more Saudi students to go to India for higher studies, activating the existing Saudi-Indian Business Council, establishing a business conclave and holding closer interactions in cultural fields — like nominating India as a guest country in the Janadriya Festival.  Read more...

APR 3, 2008
Axis of the unloved
The Jerusalem Post
A BBC poll released this week found that Iran has edged out Israel as the most unpopular country in the world, 54 percent to 52%, with Pakistan coming in a close third. Welcome to the Axis of the Unloved...Influencing opinion rather than being victims of it should be the focus of Israel's public diplomacy efforts. We need to connect with Generations Y and Z - born since 1980 - who get much of their news unfettered and unvetted from FaceBook, MySpace and other social networking sites. And we must address the crying need for an Israel-based 24/7 satellite news channel.   Read more...

APR 3, 2008
How the Next Administration Can Fix the Military, U.S. Diplomacy and More
The Washington Post
Is it possible to fix U.S. soft power without fixing the corporate control that has come to dominate every aspect of American culture, in particular the media? Can the world still differentiate between American values and corporate policy?  Read more...

APR 3, 2008
Anholt to Expand GfK’s Nation Brand Index
MrWeb
In the US, GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media has partnered with independent government advisor and author Simon Anholt to expand its annual Nation Brands Index (NBI); which provides an analytical ranking of the world’s nation brands. The quarterly worldwide poll, now known as the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index, is growing from 35 to 50 countries under Anholt’s leadership.  Read more...

APR 2, 2008
Chinese get one news source on Tibet
The Christian Science Monitor
When the Dalai Lama issued what he called "a personal appeal" to his "Chinese brothers and sisters" last week for an end to misunderstandings that have plagued Chinese-Tibetan relations, the spiritual leader's call went almost entirely unheard by its intended recipients.  Read more...

APR 2, 2008
S-Africa’s international Jazz festival ends
AfricaNews
The two-day Cape Town International Jazz festival which kicked off in Cape Town in South Africa on Friday night amid huge excitement at the International Convention Centre ended on Sunday.  Read more...

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