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Creating Bridges: An Interview with Ziyad Ali

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Title
Creating Bridges: An Interview with Ziyad Ali
Rights
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
Type
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
Identifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxAiKw8Atg&t=2s&frags=pl%2Cwn
Relation
IsPartOf Arabic
Rights Holder
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
Subject
Ziyad’s role in creating bridges as founder of Al Bilad newspaper and Khateeb/Imam at Al Hayatt mosque.
Temporal Coverage
Year of migration = 1989