AJMI - Doha

Al Jazeera Media Institute held 3 training courses in the third week of its summer camp (I'lam) namely, Future Presenter course, Talk Show Presentation course for young people and finally Young Speaker course with a total participation of 37 trainees.

Dr. Rania El-Gammal, trainer of Future presenter course, which attended by14 trainees, expressed her happiness to contribute to this summer camp, noting that the course included trainees from Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which contributed to developing communication skills of participants and building their self-confidence, which we consider as one of the most important qualifies that help them to become an active part of their communities. Al-Jamal confirmed that she was "surprised by their great sense of media and their seriousness in developing their skills."

Saudi trainee Joan Fallatah, one of the trainees in "Future Presenter" course, said, "I was excited to join the course and it was beautiful days I spent learning new skills, and I benefited a lot from this course." She also added “I’m grateful for all the pleasure and knowledge you have given me”.

In Talk shows presentation course for young people, where eleven trainees participated, presenter Sama Al-Saabi, the trainer of the course, explained that the focus was on basics of conducting simple interviews starting from an introduction to easy writing throughout introducing episode guest covering the most important questions that trainees need to make ready for the guest in addition to standards required to end interviews.

Al-Saabi stressed that trainees interacted positively with the content of the course, saying that they "showed great response to various activities and exercises and expressed their aspiration for more knowledge and their keenness to apply everything they acquired in the course."

Journalist Ahmed Al-Maliki, who supervised framing of 12 trainees in the Young Presenter Course, said that “this group was characterized by great enthusiasm to learn recitation skills, and stressed that he "noticed their high confidence in themselves while presenting their graduation projects, and it is nice that learners themselves are characterized by love of learning; I sensed this through their questions, interest and diligence in the intensive exercises conducted during the course.