Tazeen Akhtar
\nOmani Journalist Association (OJA) is representing Sultanate of Oman in hosting the 31st Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) a 4-day event that started on 31st May and will continue for 4 days at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Center in, Muscat the capital city.
\nThe congress gains importance locally, regionally and internationally as the most prominent journalism and media related event in the Middle East. As many as 350 journalists, representing federations,associations and authorities from over 100 countries are taking part in the event.They are in addition to 50 journalists and media personalities who represent newspapers, radio, television channels and e-newspapers from all over the world.
\nDr. Mohammed Mubarak Al-Araimi, Chairman of the OJA Board of Directors said that the OJA , in cooperation with the Secretariat General of the IFJ, will announce the Asian Federation for Journalists.
\nDr Al-Araimi submitted the proposal of hosting the congress in Sep 2021 at IFJ\u2019s executive office during a video conference. The Sultanate secured 18 votes out of 21, which makes it the second Arab country to host the Congress after Tunisia.
\nThe International Federation had earlier assigned the Association to organize the meetings of the Executive Office between March 13 and 17 in 2020 but due to the prevailing situation of the pandemic , they were postponed four times.
\nDuring the opening ceremony of the congress, the Sultanate of Oman\u2019s award for the best press photo in the world will be announced and the families of 5 journalists who deceased on job will be honored.
\nOman is considered the 2nd Arab country after Tunisia and the 1st Asian country to host the IFJ congress.
\nVarious committees and sub committees under the umbrella of the OJA, named external relations, media, marketing, events, secretarial and financial work have been formed and having their meetings on daily basis.
\nThe journalists are presenting the papers , holding discussions and attending the seminars on economics, tourism, investments, culture, heritage of Sultanate of Oman that will introduce the Sultanate with its potential in different sectors of life. It can give boost to the tourism in the State. Sultanate has arranged tourist site visits for the participants
\nRegular communication is alive with the secretariat of the IFJ in Brussels to follow up on developments regarding the needs and requirement of these meetings, which is to host election for a new leadership for the next four years.
\nThe OAJ executive committee hopes that the Muscat conference would be a new major landmark in the regional history of journalism. The OAJ will be able to assume its appropriate position in the international arena and the Asian Federation of Journalists in addition to its presence in the General Secretariat and the leadership of the Union of Arab Journalists.
\nThe congress is witnessing the election of a new leadership of IFJ in addition that Muscat hosts during this event, the founding meeting of the Asian Journalists Association to elect its first new management board. The two outstanding events constitute a distinction in the international and Asian process work, 100 years after the establishment of IFJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tazeen Akhtar Omani Journalist Association (OJA) is representing Sultanate of Oman in hosting the 31st Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) a 4-day event that started on 31st May and will continue for 4 days at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Center in, Muscat the capital city. The congress gains importance locally, regionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7973,7972,7999],"class_list":{"0":"post-263953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-ifj","9":"tag-oman","10":"tag-omani-journalist-association"},"yoast_head":"\n