The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA), a branch of the Arab League, is a membership organization for Arabic-language, national news agencies, currently of 18 or 19 members[2] and established in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon.[3][4]
Federation of Arab News Agencies | |
|---|---|
| Official languages | |
| Demonym(s) | Arabs |
| Type | Regional organization |
| Members | |
| Leaders | |
• Secretary-General | Abdullah bin Fahd bin Mohammed Al-Hussein |
| Area | |
• Total area | 13,132,327 km2 (5,070,420 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2018 estimate | 406,700,000[1] |
• Density | 27.17/km2 (70.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 to +4 |
Website www.fananews.com/en/ | |
Mission
editFANA's mission is to promote cooperation among its members and around the world.[4]
FANA reflects development of similar regional groups including the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies (AMAN), the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA), the and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).[5]
History
editEfforts to form a union of Arab national news agencies started on October 28, 1964, in Cairo, Egypt, and resulted in a conference in Amman, Jordan, in 1965.[2][4] In January 1974, the League of Arab States ("Arab League") called for a second conference, held in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 1974.[2][4] During a third conference in Beirut in 1975, the Federation of Arab News Agencies formed and made Beirut its headquarters, whose founding members came from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, and Yemen.[2][4][6]
Organization
editFANA holds an annual General Assembly every November, while general managers of its national news agency members meet semi-annually.[2] FANA held the 49th Conference of its General Assembly in Abu Dhab in November 2022 with the participation of the 14 news agencies' directors or their representatives.[7]
Members
edit
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
FANA's official English website has varying current members listed, which include:
- Algeria – Algeria Press Service (APS)
- Bahrain – Bahrain News Agency (BNA)
- Egypt – Middle East News Agency (MENA)
- Iraq – National Iraqi News Agency (NINA)
- Jordan – Jordan News Agency (PETRA)
- Kuwait – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
- Lebanon – National News Agency (NNA)
- Libya – Libyan News Agency (LANA) (AKA Jamahiriya News Agency)
- Mauritania – Mauritanian News Agency (AMI)
- Morocco – Maghreb Arabe Press (MAP)
- Oman – Oman News Agency (ONA)
- Palestine – Palestine News Agency (WAFA)
- Qatar – Qatar News Agency (QNA)
- Saudi Arabia – Saudi Press Agency (SPA)
- Syria – Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
- Sudan – Sudan News Agency (SUNA)
- Tunisia – Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP)
- UAE – Emirates News Agency (WAM)
- Yemen – Saba News Agency (SABA)
Non-members (but Arab League members):
- Comoros – no national news agency
- Djibouti – Agence Djiboutienne d'Information
- Somalia – no national news agency
Leadership
editFANA's current head is Abdullah bin Fahd bin Mohammed al-Hussein.[8]
FANA's leadership has included:
- Ziyad Abdel Fattah (1978–????)
- Nasr Taha Mustafa (2003–2005)
Awards
edit- 2006: Best Photo to Layal Najib (1983–2006)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations".
- ^ a b c d e "About Us (Arabic)". Federation of Arab News Agencies. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Contact Us". Federation of Arab News Agencies. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA)". Union of International Associations. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2011). "Rethinking News Agencies, National Development and Information Imperialism". Economic and Political Weekly. Sameeksha Trust: 7–8. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ La Parra, Daniel; Penalva, Clemente; Mateo, Miguel Angel (August 2010). "The representation of the world in national Arab news agencies: an exploration of (trans)national networks in the official Arab media". Convergencia. 17 (53). Scielo: 125–150. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "FANA Holds 49th General Assembly Conference in Abu Dhabi | MapNews". www.mapnews.ma. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ "Directors". Federation of Arab News Agencies. Retrieved 12 October 2021.