ALI JABER : Journalism, Politics & Mass Media in The Arab World | Sarde (after dinner) Podcast #33

Ali Jaber is a journalist at heart, a communicator in essence and an aspiring human.
His official titles are: Group Director of the Middle East Broadcasting Center, Dean of the Mohammed Bin Rashid School for Communication at the American University of Dubai and also happens to be Mouin’s Father.

علي جابر صحافي من داخله، اعلامي بالمبدأ و طموحه ان يكون انساني .
ومناصبه الرسميه ، فهو مدير عام القنوات التلفزيونية في ام بي سي ، وعميد كلية محمد بن راشد للاعلام بالجامعة الاميركية في دبي ورئيس الهيئة الاكاديمية في معهد دبي للتصميم والابتكار
وعضو في مجلس دبي الحكومي للازياء و التصميم .

Sarde (noun), [Sa-r-de]: A colloquial term used in the Middle East to describe the act of letting go & kicking off a stream of consciousness and a rambling narrative.

The Sarde After Dinner Podcast is a free space based out of the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, where Médéa Azouri & Mouin Jaber discuss a wide range of topics (usually) held behind closed doors in an open and simple way with guests from all walks of life.

Have a Sarde year every Sunday at 8:00 PM Beirut Time with new episodes released weekly!
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Edited by Dana Abdessamad

00:00 | Introduction to Ali Jaber
01:39 | René Moawad assassination: the day Ali Jaber became a “real journalist”
09:12 | Teaching TV & creating Future TV
17:33 | Was there sectarianism working for Hariri?
18:57 | Creating TV in the Gulf (Dubai)
21:39| Lebanese TV channels vs. Other TV channels
22:32 | Future TV’s innovations
24:15 | Traditional (un-democratic) media vs. the alternative (democratic) media
27:11 | The decline of news “papers” and TV in Lebanon
30:25 | Free-To-Air Television vs. Paid Television & Streaming services
33:35 | Fighting against the colonization of Western Giants like Netflix & Amazon
49:21 | The problem with Drama Series in the Arab World
52:30 | How Ali Jaber found hope again in October 17th
56:43 | “I left Lebanon, but I will never forgive”
59:39 | Comparing the Civil War with present day
1:01:07 | Ali’s comments on the August 4th blast
1:03:00 | Hope in the diaspora
1:06:27 | Hope in the Lebanese Youth on the ground
1:14:02 | Impoverishment Policy To Control
1:14:59 | Why there won’t be a civil war in Lebanon today
1:17:31 | Is there any hope?