2 Egyptian journalists say Kurdish media should target Arab world

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Two Egyptian journalists, taking part in the special week related to the Kurdish press in Arbil, on Sunday called to find a Kurdish media oriented to the Arab street to explain the Kurdish cause without distortion. “It is necessary that the Kurdish media presents its cause with the true and correct image to the Arabs,” Mohamed Hassan al-Bana, al-Akhbar’s deputy editor-in-chief, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The Arab citizen wants to know the truth and what happened in this region and the message should be clear and honest, without being false,” the journalist added. For his part, the Egyptian Researcher and Writer, Ragaei Fayed, told IraqiNews.com news agency, that Kurdish media should depend on a true and unified address oriented to the Arab world, noting that Arabs are keen to receive information from their real sources instead of taking them from distorted and unreal sources. “Kurds have to count on a true and unified address oriented to Arabs, Turks, and Persians because its Kurd’s destiny to live amid these nationalities,” he added. “The Kurdish cause, after the topple of the former regime, worsened as it was linked to the U.S. and what had been said about the presence of Israel in Kurdistan, hence the image becoming bad and requiring sincere efforts to fix it,” he explained. On the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the Kurdish press, the Kurdistan’s syndicate of journalists is organizing a special week in Arbil with the attendance of several journalists in Kurdistan and some journalistic delegation invited from some Arab countries and Iran. The week is being attended by head of Britain’s National Union of Journalists James Torhati, head of Iranian journalists union Rajab Mazroae, head of the Kurdish institute in Iran Bahram Baki, deputy editing of al-Akhbar newspaper along with a number of the Arab and Iranian journalists. The first Kurdish newspaper was published in Cairo under the name of (Kurdistan) on April 22, 1898 by the leader of the Kurdish journalism, Muqdad Medhat Badrakhan. SH (S)/SR 3