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NAME

Abelsalamaref Abunada

Email: aabunada@internews.org Skype: Abdelsalam Abunada

Twitter: @salamnada LinkedIn Profile: Abdelslam Abunada https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelsalam-abunada-3a833541

Blog: http://www.shubedna.com/ Phone: + 23354672226

Mobile: +972 5955 04 554

+972 597707444

KEY EXPERTISE 1. NGO MANAGEMENT 2. OFFICIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT 3. INTERNATIONAL MEDIA 4. ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNING 5. COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RELATIONS 6. ANLYSIS AND PALESTINIAN MEDIA MAPING TILL 2000 7. TRAINING AND COACHING 8. PROFISSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 9. ADDITIONAL PROFISSIONAL EXPERIENCE 10. ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 11. HOUNORS AND REWARDS 12. WORKING HISTOY 13. PUBLICATIONS, PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND CONFERENCES 14. EDUCATION 15. LANGUAGES

An experienced /NGO/CSO/official/private/ Thirty-three years of experience as a journalist with twenty years in media development with both governmental and private media outlets and journalists. Specific expertise includes: Creative problem solving in situations of conflict and emergency, conception, implementation, production, evaluation, and management of media programs, business and strategic planning for large and small radio and television outlets, designing implementation plans to meet goals, designing media strategies for non-media organizations Development of sustainable partnerships and relationships with diverse governmental and non-governmental organizations and actors, enhancing dialogue, liberties, justice, human rights, professional media development, advocacy fields and experience in humanitarian media work, journalist in printed journalism and audio video reporting in the ME region. Profile of expertise include media specialist and consultant on planning, personnel management, budgeting, financial planning, media business development planning, marketing and sales planning and performance, evaluation, monitoring, campaigning, strategic communication, media relations, analysis, research and policy development as well as training on all platforms of media and advocacy.

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16. PERSONAL DATA 17. TRAVEL

1- NGO MANAGEMENT Planning, staff management, recruiting, fund raising, proposal writing, budgeting, grant- management, grantee oversight, supervising financial planning and performance, communication planning

Training Director: Internews (Sep. 2016) up to date (Syria Project –SIMS- in partnership with IREX.

Main lead for media Monitoring of SIMS partners of IREX.

Internews Dec. 2015- Jan2016 assist with proposal development and design of three pending proposal submissions, contact potential partners and partner organizations for proposals, suggest and contact potential partners for specific partner agreements and letters of. Support, assist in the contact and meeting set-up with potential regional funders, preparation of specific materials and approaches to regional funders, attend meetings together with the Regional Director with potential regional funders.

Internews (Aug.2015 –Dec.2015) project Director MEPI grant (Supporting Civic Engagement and National Dialogue through Independent Palestinian Media), main responsibilities include staff hiring, managing the project team and daily activities of the project, contracts and grants management, following up program issues with project’s partners and donor.

Internews (November 2014-February 2015) Lead Trainer and Program Director, Akhbar ow Bas-Lebanon, responsible for the implementation of the 3-month pilot program; recruiting, training, mentoring, and coordinating the group of twenty young journalists from around Lebanon, managed the news accuracy and verification processes of the trainees, creatively solved communications and technical problems, financial management, and program objectives

Internews Network August-October 2014 Trainer and Executive Producer, Gaza Humanitarian Information System. Together with the international lead trainer, trained the journalists on humanitarian reporting, responsible for the oversight and information quality of the daily radio program, acted as the executive producer and trained the program producer, managed the social media feed into the studio and responses/answers to the questions posted by citizens of Gaza, creative problem solving on broadcast and communication issues, overall responsibility for the radio program design and information content, connected the radio program with a television broadcast and enabled mobile platform reporting and broadcasting for the journalists in Gaza and the West Bank, managed relations and coordination between the journalists and the Humanitarian Liaison Officers.

Internews Network (Apr.2012 - Sep.2014) a USAID project (Enhancing Palestinian Independent Media - EPIM) which included consultancy and media trainer, grant-making planning- and sub-awards for 11 media outlets, business media training and supervising designing business plans for 11 media outlets, supervising marketing and sales plans for 2 media outlets, managing and developing professional relations for the sub grantees (Jossor affiliation), supervising the designing of the Sharing program cycles, and co-production. Editorial polices designing, Monitoring and

evaluating journalist’s and media outlets productions. Participated in setting up the polices

and gales of the Media Policy Research and Resources Center.

Internews February-May 2012 Consultant and Media Development Specialist,, West Bank/Gaza Training on creating public service announcements and assisting young journalists in the production techniques.

Palestine Movie Directors Association with Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)

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(Jun. 2011- Feb. 2012) Promoting Dialogue through Film and Young Film Makers responsibilities included Project Director, trainer in filmmaking, script writing, and supervised productions procedures.

2- OFFICIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

17 years Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) (January 1995-May2012)

PBC May 2010- May 2012 Consultant for the Supervisor of the Palestinian official media.

Responsible for monitoring all PBC media (radio, television, electronic media) and evaluating the production quality and the professional approaches of the PBC staff, monitoring hate speech and dehumanizing language about others on the PBC to make decisions on pulling reports and programs, monitored the regional media for dehumanizing stereotypes about Palestinians, managed a staff of twenty, submitted weekly reports with recommendations to the Supervisor about the quality; reporting problems and concerns immediately.

- May 2008-May 2010 Director General of the Quality Control Unit

Evaluated all programs for content and quality, monitored engineering departments for efficiency and professionalism, hired and reported to the head of PBC on the hiring and training of new employees, designed and supervised training for all new staff, performed annual evaluation with training recommendations of all PBC staff (1,200) lower than General Directors; reported daily to the head of PBC on the work of all the departments and a weekly report on the main problems with recommendations, directly managed a staff of forty.

PBC July 2007-May 2008 Director General for training & development

Responsible for designing training for staff and interns, training for university students and foreign media, created different training courses and modules for the different media fields, set-up the employment system, departmental and intra-departmental procedures for the thirteen directorates of the PBC

PBC May 2005-July 2007 Director General – Department of TV programs

Head of the programs committee for both the radio and television program cycles, final approval for programs and productions, classified the types of programs according to the needs of the audience to inform the program cycle design, responsible for the MCR (what was broadcast and what was not), responsible for decisions on broadcasting during emergency situations including the news broadcasts, managed a media staff of 335 in both Gaza and the West Bank. Oversaw the transfer of archives, staff, and broadcast signals from Gaza to the West Bank during the Hamas military coup in Gaza.

PBC May 2004-May 2005 Director General of Quality Control Unit

Created the unit after closing the censorship unit and designed the working system for the department, trained the initial staff of 15 who became trainers for the others, reported daily to the Minister of Information evaluating the work and performance with recommendations on all departments in both the radio and television, satellite and terrestrial channels, recommended and then managed the merge of the satellite and terrestrial channels into one broadcast.

PBC January 1995-September 2000 launched in November 1994 as the first Palestinian controlled broadcast Responsible for the foundations of the television station, creating production procedures, productions, broadcast systems and workflow and staff procedures, moderator/host for thirteen programs and director of 100s of episodes of programs and documentaries as Deputy Director General (1998-2000), TV Director and Chief Director of Video Production (1995-2000), and Production Manager (1995-2000)

3- INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

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ANN 1998 - 2004

News Reporter & Announcer in Gaza for the Arab News Network (ANN), London, UK

4- ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNING

5 years with the Palestinian Refugees Human Right in Diaspora (PRHRD) (1986-1992)

o Established and maintained the PRHRD in Malta, opened 3 other Branches in other

European countries, Italy Germany and Greece. sat up the polices of the association, objectives, and the organizational structure, the entity was active till 1998, advocated and campaigned for the youth Euro-Arab dialogue and for the rights of Palestinian on their own independent state, and enhanced the themes of peace, accepting the other, and integration for refugees in their new environments and countries. PRHRD campaigned and advocated for a peace treaty to be singe with Israel.

o Led efforts to engage representatives of the PA to support and establish needed regulations and practice frameworks to allow independent media outlets to operate freely throughout the Palestinian territories.

o Participated in the campaign to allow broadcasting of Palestinian Legislative Council on the air, to adjust and modify 1995 publication law, continued the campaigning on 2014 with the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate.

o Participating on Internews efforts to work with other Palestinian NGOs and officials and Individuals to reform the Palestinian legal environment, threw netting the needed relations among the stakeholders.

o Participating on Internews efforts to work with other Palestinian NGOs and officials and

Individuals to achieve the best Palestinian legal draft for the access to information law which is under discussion.

5- COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RELATIONS

o Developed with Internews a news verification methodology with a group of young Palestinian journalists in Gaza and WB on a mob. Application called Zello.

o 2010 Committee Member, Al Quds University Media Curricula Development

o 2010 Consultant for the Development of the Media and Business Plan for the Palestinian Islamic/Christian Commission

o 2010 Member of the Governmental Committee for the development of the 2011-2013 Palestinian Media Plan

o 2007 - 2011 President of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association (PMVDA)

o 2006 Member of the National Palestinian Executive Council of Media

o 2005 - 2007 Project Manager of the administrative board of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association (PMVDA)

o 2002 - 2005 President of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association

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(PMVDA)4 Years with Internews Network Inc., based in Jerusalem and then Amman with brief engagement in Cairo (1996-1999)

o Television production messaging, Public Relations, News Releases, Branding and Media Relations.

o (1980- 2004) Reporter in Al- Nashra Magazin, human rights magazine used to be published in Cyprus and till 1995 started to be published in Gaza, stooped on 2005. Financial chalanges.

o Representative of Al-Arab Le Alsahafah office located in Jerusalem in Europe (1990-1995).

6- ANALYSIS AND PALESTINIAN MEDIA MAPING TILL 2000

Analysis of the Palestinian legal Media Environment 2005 submitted to Al-Aqsa University.

On 2013 submitted a professional analysis for the performance of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation for the period of (1994-2000), for the Second Annual Conference of the Faculty of Information and Communication -University of Palestine which mapped the Palestinian four generations journalists and media outlets (1940-2000).

7- TRAINING AND COACHING

o Journalism trainings: various subjects, West Bank and Gaza and Lebanon (1995-2015)

o Trainings on the use of Internet in journalists and civil society work, West Bank, Gaza (1995-2015).

o Trainings on programs moderating (1995-2012) o Trainings of young and professional journalists on editorial police (1995-2015).

o Trainings on Advocacy and Advocacy Strategy, Palestinian territories 1997-1999

o Trainings of journalists on research-based approach for human rights reporting, Palestinian territories (1997-2004)

o Trainings on Human Rights violations documentation, Fact-Finding and Investigation, Palestinian territories (1997-2004)

o Facilitation, workshops, strategic consultations and networking, regional level and locally (1997- 2004

o Trainings on fully and semi script writing (1995-2014) o Trainings on Filmmaking (1995- 2012) o Trainings on media productions. (1995- 2012) o Trainings on movie and drama casting (1995- 2012). o Trainings on designing media outlet style (1995-2014). o Trainings on media development and media business building (1995-2014) o Trainings on media relationship and networking (2012-2014)

8- PROFISSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIANCE

2011 (Fall Semester) Lecturer on Script Writing at the Bethlehem Biblical College

1999 - 2004 Program Manager & Chief Trainer for the Diploma course of TV Arts in the Continuing Education Department of Al-Aqsa University, (Fields of lecturing: Art Critique, History of Art, Aesthetics, Scenario, Film Directing, Cinematography, Documentary, Script Writing)

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1998 - 2003 Lecturer at Al-Aqsa University for (the Faculty of Art & the Faculty of Media

9- ADDITIONAL PROFISSIONAL EXPERIANCE

2011-2012 Executive Director, Promoting Social Dialogue through Film & Young Filmmakers Project funded by The Middle East Partnership Initiative & the PMVDA

2010 Committee Member, Al Quds University Media Curricula Development

2010 Consultant for the Development of the Media and Business Plan for the Palestinian Islamic/Christian Commission

2010 Member of the Governmental Committee for the development of the 2011-2013 Palestinian Media Plan

2007 - 2011 President of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association (PMVDA)

2006 Member of the National Palestinian Executive Council of Media

2005 - 2007 Project Manager of the administrative board of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association (PMVDA)

2002 - 2005 President of the Palestine Movie & Video Directors Association (PMVDA)

10- ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Directed and designed more than 30 Fully Scripted & more than 100 Semi- scripted programs.

Designed the twenty year development plan and administrative structure for the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, which was approved by the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and the Palestinian Cabinet on November 2006; still being implemented.

11-HOUNORS AND REWARDS

Arab Cairo Media Festival Award for the Development of Arab Media (2008)

12- WORKING HISTOY

SPECIALIST, CONSALTANT, ADVISER.

Internews media specialist and consultant (2012-2015)

PBC May 2010- May 2012 Adviser for the Supervisor of the Palestinian official media.

13- PUBLICATIONS, PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND CONFERENCES

Introduction to Visual Media, (Akhnatun Publishing, 2007) The Editorial Policies Impact on Media Outlets Development https://shubedna.blogspot.com.mt/

, socio-political monitoring and op-ed articles website (2015) https://www.facebook.com/AbedelsalamAbunada/?ref=bookmarks https://www.facebook.com/filmmakersalam.nada?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

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Head of the National Committee for the Selection of the Investigative Journalism Award (Palestine

2013) Head of the National Committee for the Selection of the Documentary Award (Palestine 2009-2012) National Committee member for the Selection of Photography Award (Palestine 2011)

Represented the PBC in 2003 and 2007 as a Panel Judge in for the Cairo Media Festival

Represented the PBC in the Asia Media Summit in November 2009, Amsterdam, hosted by Radio Netherlands.

14- EDUCATION

Certificate in Israeli Studies, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2007-8

MA in Art Education, Al Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine, 2000

MA in Fine Arts, School of Art, Valletta, Malta, 1994

Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta, 1992

BA in Law, School of Law, Beirut Arab University, 1986

15- LANGUAGES

Arabic (native language) English

Maltese

PERSONAL DATA -16

• Gender: Male • Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia • Date of Birth: 20/4/1958 • Nationality: Palestinian

17- TRAVEL

• Europe: Malta, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Germany • Middle East and North Africa: Syria, Israel, Egypt, Palestinian Areas, Lebanon, Saudi

Arabia, Jordan, Algiers , and Tunisia • Americas: the United States and Canada

18- REFERENCES

Julia Pitner, Chief of Party and Country Director, Internews WB/G, email: jpitner@internews.org Walter Dean Senior trainer wcdean@deannet.net Dr. Mahmoud Khalifa, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Information, email: khalefa14@hotmail.com Dr. Nabil Shaath, former Minister of Information, Secretary, Hamdi, mobile: 00.970.597.454.638

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