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Qatar tribune Tribune News Network Doha Qatar National Library (QNL) hosted an international team of experts as part of a locally driven and globally connected initiative to preserve Palestinian and Lebanese heritage. Titled ‘Fighting Erasure: Archiving Against the Gaza Genocide and the War on Lebanon’, the project seeks to contribute to the safeguarding of Palestinian and Lebanese cultural heritage through public education and advocacy, training, social media archiving, resource sharing and digital infrastructure development. Abeer S. Al Kuwari, director of National Collections and Special Initiatives at QNL, said: “Today’s discussions mark the latest in a series of initiatives that the Library has undertaken to help protect our collective Arab heritage since the war on Gaza began. The expansion and intensification of bombardments are putting an increasing number of archaeological heritage sites throughout Gaza and Lebanon at risk, threatening the erasure of landmarks that embody thousands of years of history.” “At least 104 archaeological heritage sites have so far been destroyed in Gaza and we fear the erasure of the region’s cultural heritage could further expand as the assault on Lebanon continues. Through advocacy, social media archiving, resource sharing and digital infrastructure development, we hope to limit this damage and protect the region’s cultural identity,” she explained. The event brought together Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, founding director of the Archives and Digital Media Lab and Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada, along with Dr. Hanine Shehadeh, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi and a Research Affiliate at the Palestine Land Studies Centre (PLSC) at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Ghaddar said the initiative leverages global connections and media exposure to mitigate the war’s negative impact on the cultural front. “Through global collaborations and leveraging new media, we work against the cultural dimensions of the genocide, safeguarding Palestinian and Lebanese archives and heritage in defence of Arab life, land and freedom,” she said. Dr. Shehadeh described efforts to protect heritage as an act of peaceful opposition. “Preserving memory is an act of resistance—Palestinians might be burning, but they are not consumed. They rise again and again to share photos under fire, continuously defying Israel’s erasure to keep the truth alive,” she argued. They were joined by Rula Shahwan, director of the Library and Visual Archive Department at the Arab American University (AAUP), Ghada Dimashk, an archival and library fellow at Dalhousie University in Canada, Dr. Rami Zurayk, professor of ecosystem management at the American University of Beirut, and Tamara Rayan, PhD candidate in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. The talks were moderated by Rawad Bou Malhab, Head of Manuscripts and Archives at Qatar National Library. Since the launch of the assault on Gaza, the Library has organized numerous events to help protect Palestinian heritage and emphasize Palestine’s deep-rooted Arab identity.The locally driven project brings together scholars, librarians, archivists and historians to safeguard Palestinian and Lebanese heritage Copy 24/11/2024 10
X owner Elon Musk has delivered a brutal takedown of an Australian newspaper, predicting they will lose their readership over “relentless lying”. The hit targeted Nine Entertainment’s Sydney Morning Herald after it published an opinion piece on Sunday featuring a prediction that irked the billionaire. The outlet published an article by technology editor David Swan in which he shared his predictions for the industry in 2025. One prediction was that Mr Musk would leave electric car manufacturer Tesla to focus on Government work with US President-elect Donald Trump. Mr Swan suggested that the world’s richest man would have too much on his plate. “To be juggling leadership roles at X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, the Boring Company and Neuralink was already unsustainable,” the SMH article read. “Musk now has wormed his way into Trump’s inner circle, and will jointly lead the president-elect’s DOGE – Department of Government Efficiency – in a bid to slash billions in government expenditure. “After constant controversies and distractions, it will all come to a head in 2025, and Musk will be forced to hand over the reins at Tesla, a company many mistakenly think he founded.” The prediction over Mr Musk’s resignation was not appreciated by the world’s richest man. Replying to a screenshot of the opinion piece, Mr Musk delivered his own prediction for 2025, aimed directly at the publisher of the article. “I predict that the Sydney Morning Herald will continue to lose readership in 2025 for relentlessly lying to their audience and boring them to death Mr Musk’s smackdown was shared with his 209 million followers on the X social media platform. “Easy prediction to make, any legacy media continuing to lie to their readers will face significant decline,” one user added to Mr Musk’s prediction. “Australia, Ireland and the UK are stuck in the woke nightmare, and I feel for them,” said another. “They are becoming more and more irrelevant,” a third added. One user shared a screenshot of Nine Entertainment’s share price, which has been in decline since 2022. Back on the Sydney Morning Herald website, Mr Swan appeared to strike a chord with some readers. “I’d love to see Musk on a one-way trip to Mars and stop teaching me how to live my life,” one person commented. “Musk quits Tesla and becomes de facto President of the USA!” wrote another. Mr Musk agreed with one user commenting on his post who said that “legacy media is in a doom spiral”. Mr Swan appeared to brush off the attack on his own X profile, writing, “Damn, roasted” in a post accompanied by a retweet of Mr Musk’s clap back. However, the reaction to Mr Swan’s was split on his profile. “You need to frame this,” one wrote. “How about so-called journalists try and get their dignity back by not reporting lies and gearing the audience towards clickbait,” said another. The controversy ended a week that the Sydney Morning Herald may want to put behind them. On Friday, the newspaper issued an apology after incorrectly identifying Adelaide barrister Ian Roberts as the South Australian fatality in the Sydney to Hobart race. Mr Roberts was not killed in the tragic accident, instead, South Australian Nick Smith lost his life when he was struck by a boom during dangerous weather. “The Sydney Morning Herald incorrectly named Adelaide barrister Ian Roberts as one of the victims in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race,” the Sydney Morning Herald wrote. “This was incorrect. We apologise to Mr Roberts and his family.”A fter 21 years, the day Farouk feared had finally come. An envelope sealed with red wax made its way through the faded hallways of Syria’s national news agency, Sana, and landed on his desk. Inside was what employees called a penalty, the contents of which could range from a reprimand from the editors to a summons to one of Syria’s brutal security branches. “I found a mistake before the article was published and I brought it to the editors’ attention. I thought this would be a good thing but they punished me,” Farouk, a journalist on Sana’s foreign news desk, said under a pseudonym. Farouk was lucky: he faced only an administrative consequence. Other co-workers had not been so fortunate. One day in 2014, Mohanned Abdelrahman was in the break room chatting with other colleagues as he prepared tea. During the conversation, it dawned on him that all of the employees in the group were from the same religious sect, something that could arouse the suspicion of authorities who were paranoid about any forms of community organising. Quickly, the group disbanded and headed back to their offices. A week later, he and the other employees found an envelope with the feared red seal on their desks. Inside was a summons to Branch 235, AKA the Palestinian branch, one of the country’s most infamous detention centres, where Abdelrahman and other employees would be kept and interrogated for the next 15 days. Abdelrahman and his colleagues recounted their respective arrests while seated around a desk in Sana’s foreign news department 10 days after the fall of the Assad regime, seemingly still dazed that they could speak freely. For the past 13 years, journalists had not been allowed to report freely as their news agency was on the frontline of the Assad regime’s propaganda effort. The Sana homepage, not updated since Assad’s ousting on 8 December , still bore the last headline issued by the Assad regime. “President al-Assad assumes his work, national and constitutional duties”, the news ticker read, despite the dictator’s flight to Moscow a few hours earlier. The news agency’s coverage in the days before the toppling of the Assad regime claimed all was well within Syria. As rebels advanced on Damascus, Sana said they were merely staging photo ops. It spoke of “strategic redeployments” while Syrian government forces abandoned their posts en masse. Sana journalists were not brainwashed; they knew that the opposition was making inroads against regime forces. But years of Orwellian control and censorship within the newsroom had left them unable to write the truth. Abdelrahman said: “They would tell you that the yoghurt was black and you were not allowed to say it’s white. They made you feel scared that you would be punished, so you wouldn’t try to add anything new to articles.” Throughout the civil war, Sana parroted regime lines, making itself key to the Syrian and Russian disinformation campaign. Its articles called the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, organ-harvesting agents of al-Qaida. While more than 90% of Syrians were living below the poverty line, the news agency reported on the installation of eco-buses in Damascus. To ensure journalists did not write anything that contradicted the regime’s line, Syrian intelligence agents planted informants in the office to observe reporters. “You didn’t know who was the one among us writing reports on their fellow employees. They reported when you got into work, when you left, how long you spent in the bathroom,” Abdelrahman said. Journalists’ social media profiles were monitored. A status that expressed any dissenting view, or even a “like” on a suspicious comment, would attract the attention of authorities. The consequences for journalists who dared to deviate from the state’s line could be deadly. Reporters recalled a colleague who was detained for three months and tortured daily, suspended from a pipe in a grotesque stress position. Another was severely tortured after it was discovered he had been sending footage of opposition protests in south Syria to Al Jazeera. Almost all Sana journalists had stories about being detained. Alleged offences included tarnishing the reputation of Syria, organising revolutionary activities, working on behalf of Israel and working on behalf of Iran. Under the threat of bodily harm, journalists were asked to deny the reality they saw with their eyes and instead believe the press releases sent to them by the regime’s PR teams. As economic conditions deteriorated, the Syrian regime would plant more and more egregious statistics and figures in their articles. The Assad regime was most sensitive towards the economic stories, acutely aware of growing discontent. “There was a blackout on any real information. The numbers coming from the ministry of industry and economy were pulled out of thin air,” said Adnan al-Akhras, a home news reporter. Journalists also had to contend with the organisation’s fearsome bureaucracy and onerous editorial standards. If a journalist was dispatched to cover a story abroad, they would first have to seek the permission of their editor, who would need to get the permission of the managing editor, who would report to the editor-in-chief, who would have to ask the minister of information. By the time all the permissions had been secured, the story was long over. Foreign news journalists relied on wire agencies such as Sputnik and Xinhua for their copy. However, there were strict editorial policies in place that sometimes even exceeded those of the Assad regime’s foreign patrons. Journalists were obliged to change copy from Russia’s Sputnik news agency to make it stricter. For example, Russian media’s mention of “Ukraine’s army” would be changed to “neo-Nazi forces” in Sana’s stories. “We would joke that we were the real Moscow, not them,” Abdelrahman said, adding that in recent years journalists on the foreign desk could only write about Cuba, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. As journalists researched their stories, they were asked to collect any negative articles about the Assad regime that appeared in the foreign press. They would copy and paste these stories into an email, sign their names and send it off to a special account given to them by the palace. Where those emails went, the journalists had no idea – they never received a reply. As life in Syria grew harsher, so did the work at Sana. Monthly salaries at the news agency hovered at about 150,000 Syrian pounds (£9). The stories grew more outrageous in contrast to the country’s growing poverty, absurd even to their authors. “We had a phrase: ‘Let the owner of the donkey tie it where he would like’,” said Ibrahim, a Sana journalist who asked to be identified only by his first name. Journalists were not allowed to quit. They could present their resignation to a special committee, which invariably would deny the request. They were not allowed to travel. If they tried, their name would flash across the border guard’s screens and they would be sent back home. Sana journalists were considered as having access to sensitive information and so would have to apply for special security permissions to leave Syria – “which we never got”, Abdelrahman said. Despite the years of repression, journalists at Sana returned to work two days after the fall of the Assad regime. Home news reporters gathered and began to excitedly pitch ideas for future articles: the new marketplaces springing up in the post-Assad era; the rise of the dollar; tracing the disappearance of camera footage from regime prisons. Still, after years of strict control, journalists seemed unsure how to proceed. “We hope we will have freedom as journalists and that none of us will be arrested any more,” Abdelrahman said, glancing at a media officer from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel group that led the ousting of Assad, who had been given the task of helping reorganise the state news agency.
Seoul, December 30: Transportation safety authorities of the United States plan to help their South Korean counterparts with a probe into the cause of a deadly Jeju Air plane crash that claimed 179 lives, according to a US official on Monday. The accident took place early Sunday, when Jeju Air flight 7C2216 veered off the runway while belly-landing and collided with a fence at the Muan International Airport in Muan County, about 290 kilometers southwest of Seoul. The crash of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft killed 179 people, with two others having been rescued, reports Yonhap news agency. South Korea Plane Crash: Death Toll Rises to 47 After Jeju Air Flight 2216 Carrying 181 People Catches Fire During Landing at Muan International Airport. In an email statement sent to Yonhap News Agency, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it has formed a team with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to support South Korean authorities with the investigation. "The NTSB is leading a team of U.S. investigators, that includes the FAA and Boeing, to assist the Republic of Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB) with their investigation into the Dec. 29 Jeju Air crash," Donnell Evans, a communications official at the FAA, said. The South Korean government also confirmed the participation of U.S. authorities. "In relation to the accident investigation, the U.S. NTSB has decided to participate, and discussions are under way regarding the participation of Boeing and the engine manufacturer CFM International," Joo Jong-wan, head of the aviation policy bureau at the South Korean transport ministry, said during a press briefing. South Korea Plane Crash: Jeju Air Flight 2216 Burst Into Flames After Skidding off Runway at Muan International Airport, Killing at Least 28 (See Pics and Videos). An official at South Korea's ARAIB, operated under the country's transport ministry, said earlier the flight data recorder recovered from the aircraft has been damaged. "If we have difficulty decoding it here, then we may have to send it to the NTSB," the official said. "They have cases from all over the world to analyze, so it could take quite a bit of time." The accident marked the deadliest aviation disaster in the country since 1997, when a Korean Air plane crashed in Guam, killing 225. (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 30, 2024 10:52 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com ).