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Tarek Mitri

by Executive Editors

With the hunt underway to replace the late head of the Association of Editors, Melhem Karam, and drafting set to begin on a new media law, Executive sat down with Minister of Information Tarek Mitri to discuss press associations, legal loopholes and the future of Lebanon’s media industry. We’re seeing a lot of new media associations, both local and international, setting up shop in Lebanon at the moment. Who is supervising the legitimacy of these groups, and what are your thoughts on them? I don’t know them all, but some come and visit me and those I’ve seen have reported rather fairly. So I have no particular reason to be suspicious of any of them, or to raise the question ‘who are these people?’ I make the bona fide assumption that they’re legitimate, and I haven’t had any unpleasant surprises — I disagree with some of the things I’ve heard,

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