29 Dec 2020 - 9:29
Sheikh Dr. Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dar Al Sharq, along with Abdul Latif Abdullah Al Mahmoud, CEO of Dar Al Sharq; Jaber Al Harami, Deputy CEO of Dar Al Sharq; Dr. Khalid Mubarak Al-Shafi, Editor-in-Chief of The Peninsula; Mohamed Hajji, Editor-in-Chief of Lusail; Sadiq Mohammed Al Amari, Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq; and Abdullah Talib Al Marri, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Al Arab and other officials during a seminar and honouring ceremony organised recently by Lusail newspaper on the occasion of Qatar National Day.
The Peninsula
Doha: The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dar Al Sharq, Sheikh Dr. Khalid bin Thani Al Thani has stressed the importance of the media and its contribution to the national development process through which the State of Qatar is passing.
As a charismatic revolutionary from a scrappy Cairo neighbourhood, Ahmed Hassan was one of the stars of Jehane Noujaim’s 2013 documentary The Square, which followed a group of Egyptian activists as they toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and then fought to keep their faltering revolution alive.
The film won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for the Oscars. But Hassan’s life got harder after it was released.
His work as a cinematographer and filmmaker dried up as production companies stopped hiring him, perhaps because he was blacklisted.
He had to abandon a film project after receiving threats. He could not carry a camera in the street without being harassed. Most of his friends were in prison, some had died.