Creating Bridges: An Interview with Ziyad Ali

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moving image

Creator

Sarah El Kababji

Date

Dec 4, 2018

Description

Al Bilad newspaper is an Arabic-English newspaper distributed in London, Mississauga and Hamilton. It was started by two business partners: Laith Al Hamadani and Ziad Ali. In this video, I interview Ziad Ali, who is also the editor in chief of the English section of Al Bilad newspaper. Al Bilad relays news from the Middle East and also contains news from Canada. You can see how Al Bilad provides bridges to people who are and would like to know about the Middle East, so that they are still intact, while also keeping up with Canadian news. In this interview I ask Ziad Ali questions about why he decided to found Al Bilad and how he deals with bias concerning choice of topics. I also ask him about his role and duty as an imam/khateeb at al Hayyat mosque (shown on the video). He likes to teach and he believes he can provide bridges by relaying knowledge and news.

Format

video

Language

Arabic, English

Place

London, Ontario, Canada

Palestine

Publisher

Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action, Western University, Fall 2018

Contributor

Stephanie Cowan (film)

Ziad Ali (interviewee)

Extent

5.29

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxAiKw8Atg&t=2s&frags=pl%2Cwn

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IsPartOf Arabic

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