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Screening: Bahrain: Shooting in the Dark Q&A with May Welsh, Jon Blair, and ex-Bahraini MP

on February 3, 2012 12:22 PM

By Ivana Davidovic   "With our souls, with our blood, we would sacrifice anything for you Bahrain" people chanted on the streets of Bahrain. In February 2011, while the media glare was firmly focused on the uprising in Egypt, the Bahraini......more

Part 2: Frontline Club discusses Italian press after Berlusconi

on February 1, 2012 7:25 AM

By Charlene Rodrigues Interestingly, condemnation of Berlusconi's media involvement was not wholesale. Paolo Mancini, professor at the University of Perugia said: "Everyone here will expect me to say one thing but I don't think Berlusconi is controlling the media. It’s......more

Part 1: Frontline Club discusses Italian press after Berlusconi

on January 31, 2012 10:29 PM

By Will TurvillThe Frontline Club last night hosted a lively and informative discussion on what the future might hold for Italian media in the post-Berlusconi era.The event was hosted by BBC Radio 4 presenter Steve Hewlett who was joined on......more

American Muslim: Freedom, Faith and Fear

on January 25, 2012 10:14 PM

By Alan Selby A lot has changed in the years since 9/11. The date itself has become emblematic of a change in attitudes towards Islam, perhaps most notably in the country which bore witness to the infamous attacks that day. Popular......more

How to become a freelance foreign correspondent

on January 12, 2012 1:03 AM

By Helena WilliamsLast year was the year of the freelance foreign correspondent. The tumultuous events of 2011 gave freelance journalists unprecedented access to breathless, breaking news stories in the Arab world – unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, where embedding restrictions applied,......more

The Leveson Inquiry comes to Frontline - what have we learned?

on January 5, 2012 11:32 AM

By Thomas Lowe   Passionate exchanges, heckling from the audience and caustic wit – that’s what you get when a panel of journalists sit down to discuss what Peter Wilby described as the media’s ‘truth and reconciliation commission’.   Anne......more

Frontline watches the rise and fall of Yugoslavian film in Cinema Komunisto

on November 27, 2011 10:55 PM

By William Turvill The end of the Frontline Club’s screening season was marked, on Sunday 27 November, with the showing of Cinema Komunisto, featuring a subsequent question and answer discussion led by one of the film’s producers, Iva Plemic.The film, created......more

Part 2 - Jonathan Steele on 30 years in Afghanistan and the foreign correspondent's craft

on November 9, 2011 11:03 AM

By Thomas LoweArriving in the Deep South of the United States in 1964, Jonathan Steele witnessed the appalling treatment of black Americans. Almost five decades on, The Guardian's foreign correspondent says that ‘bearing witness’ to happenings in places as disparate......more

Jonathan Steele on a career that began with 'an enormous dose of luck'

on November 9, 2011 8:48 AM

By Olivia HeathAward-winning journalist Jonathan Steele discussed his views on the war in Afghanistan and the changing role of the foreign correspondent on Tuesday night  at the Frontline Club. In conversation with freelance journalist Tom Finn, The Guardian correspondent recalled his reportage......more

Inside Unreported World

on October 25, 2011 12:58 PM

By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi The filmmakers, from Channel 4’s acclaimed foreign affairs series Unreported World, spent two weeks secretly documenting President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crack down on opposition to his regime. Before turning off the camera, reporter Ramita Navai quietly explains that......more