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Morocco Today
Editorial Board
H. B. Qounin,
Chief Editor
H. B.
Qounin
Senior Editor : Morocco & Africa Today
M.E. contact: Phone: (0097150) 7340605 - USA contact: Fax: 00 1 517
947 6119
e-mail:
admin@moroccotoday.net - website :
www.moroccotoday.net
Short
Resume
MOROCCO
&Africa
TODAY
Moroccan First English Language Newspaper
Chief Editor: Habib B.
Qounin Al Maghribi
Site:
www.moroccotoday.net
e-mil: admin@moroccotoday.net
P.O. Box 53752 Dubai –
UAE
Phone:
+971-50- 7340605
:
Fax: + 971 4 – 3430689
 Habib
B. Qounin Al Maghribi, a Moroccan writer and researcher, is the
general manager and Senior Editor of the Moroccan English language
newspaper “Morocco Today”
www.moroccotoday.net
Mr. H.
B. Qounin was also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers of Al
Madina and Al Bilad, and Arabic Editor of the Magazine “Shell In The
Middle East” and writes in the Opinion section of Al Sharq Al Awsat
newspaper.
He is
a university graduate from the Moroccan University with a degree in
English literature and human sciences.
Mr.
Qounin has been a guest on many Radio and TV current affairs
programs (BBC, CNN, etc). He is fluent in English, Arabic and French
languages and is currently based in Dubai.
Detailed Resume
2000 - 2007: Senior
Editor of Morocco Today Newspaper. Web content developer and
webmaster of the Moroccan site in English, French and Arabic
languages.
2000: 1998: Freelance Script and Copy writer and translator (Arabic
- French - English) for Advertising companies. Freelancer Editor and
copywriter for Shell in the Middle East Magazine (English - Arabic).
1996-1998: Senior Editor and copy writer and researcher (English,
Arabic and French languages), Studies and Planning Division,
Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai, UAE.
1995-1996: Freelance journalist on Foreign Affairs and Economic
issues with Al Bilad and Al Madina Newspapers, Jeddah, Saudi.
1993 - 1995: Public Relations Officer and Press Attaché and business
coordinator for International Businessmen based in the Middle East,
USA and Europe.
1992 - 1993: Diplomatic coordinator, Press Attaché and Public
Relations Officer with Middle Eastern diplomatic mission in Morocco
and five other African countries.
19981 - 1992: Project Coordinator with the University of Minnesota,
United States Agency For International Development.
1976 - 1981: Commercial Division Coordinator, Translator/Interpreter
for business delegations to Morocco (English, French and Arabic)
with a diplomatic mission in Morocco.
- Training in
Journalism, computer sciences, Translation, Interpretation in
English, French and Arabic languages
- Chief Editor of
the paper edition of the first Moroccan English language newspaper
"Morocco and Africa Today'.
- Project
coordinator for the German GTZ Scientific and Technical Project in
Morocco.
- Project
coordinator for the ICARDA mission to Morocco.
- Business
coordinator for South African official trade mission to Morocco.
- Project
coordination for U.S. Utah State University project in Morocco.
- Project
coordinator for U.S. MIAC project in Morocco.
1972 1976: -
Graduation, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, (English, French,
Arabic) Mohammed V University, Morocco.
- Political
Economics Studies, Faculty of Law. Mohammed V University, Rabat.
April 2000 - 2001: Selected among millions of IT professionals by
the International Who's Who of Information Technology for inclusion
in the 2000 2001 and 2002 edition, as a highly respected
professional in his field, recognizing that his achievements in the
Media sector, Information Technology and Internet.
1999-2000 Golden Web
Award from the International Association of Web Masters and
Designers.
Hobbies: horse
riding, tennis, traveling, photography, painting and music.
Courtiers visited:
Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Syria). USA (California,
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Honolulu, Maui), France (Paris,
Nice, Cannes), Monaco, Switzerland (Geneva, Montreux), UK, Germany.
Achievements:
- Promoting services and businesses on-line in English, Arabic and
French
- Web developer with knowledge and experience in design, hosting,
developing and maintaining web sites independently in English,
Arabic and French languages
- Development of Dubai Department of Economic Development site in
English, Arabic and French
- Launching the first French pages on Dubai in the Internet
- Providing Computer and Internet training courses for the
Government of Dubai Department of Economic Development staff.
- Launching the first Moroccan on-line English newspaper in the WWW
- Launching the first Arabic on-line newspaper in the net
- Launching the Internet Avenue site, where companies and countries
can open their pages in different languages
- Directing on-line interviews with Information Technology experts
for publication in various print media.
- Translating and design of various sites for several companies all
over the world.
- Research on Information and Internet Technologies to make the
Arabic language adapt the English environment of the web.
- Publication of various articles and report on Information
Technology and Internet in the printed Arabic media.
- Currently: Preparing a glossary of Internet Terminology English -
Arabic.
Our Mission and Services Include:
Media and Information
Technology Association "MITA": formed
by Morocco Today Group and assisted by our editorial board, is
supported by an excellent team which includes staff with Public
Relations and Publishing experience, Arabic French and English editing
and translation skills, media monitoring, database and photographic
resource management, and sales and production expertise.
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MITA
Media monitoring (English,
French, Arabic):
MITA provides a media monitoring and/or press clipping, service. MITA
monitors more than 90 daily, weekly and monthly regional publications
in French, Arabic and English. Choose your topic or subject of
interest, and leave the job to our team Reports are provided for
clients on the topic of their choice on a monthly, weekly or daily
basis.
e-mail MITA
Translation (English, French,
Arabic):
We provide a very high quality Arabic to English and English to Arabic
translation service. Our staff are well trained and very responsive.
We translate articles and reports from newspapers and magazines,
languages used are French, Arabic and English. e-mail
MITA
Web design, development and update:
This is a job anybody can do it, but what we do more is that we built
a site that can market itself, place its pages in major search engine,
marketing your products and services on-line automatically by your
pages themselves, we can start building your page or your site,
develop it, update it and make it a point of attraction for visitors
and surfers from all over the world. Try just one page of your
products or services in our Internet
Avenue section of our site as an experiment, see the
results, and go ahead for your own site.
e-mail
MITA
Publishing (English, French,
Arabic):
MITA specializes in corporate and commercial Publishing, often working
in parallel with its clients' specific Public Relations needs and
goals.
MITA clients benefit from access to MITA's wide range of capabilities
and MITA's proven track record in Publishing and Public Relations.
Clients are offered direct access to MITA's principals, The Group
gives its personal attention to all our clients.
MITA produces magazines, newsletters and corporate brochures,
developing projects from concept to delivery. MITA's services include
origination, writing and editing copy to photography, design and final
production. In other words, MITA provides a complete A-Z Publishing
service. e-mail MITA
Public Relations:
MITA's Public Relations service ranges from the writing of press
releases and media monitoring, to the organisation of conferences and
major event management.
All services provided by MITA are available in Arabic, English and
French..
e-mail MITA
Photo library:
MITA has a an extensive photo library of images from throughout the
Middle East region. MITA also has images from around the world from
the photo library of a traveller photo-journalist, many of which date
from the period 1950 to 1980.
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MITA
Morocco
Today
- Editors
: Media and Information Technology Group
- Editions
: 52
editions a year, plus special issues
- Language
: English
- Origin
: Morocco
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Description :
More than 20 years old, Morocco Today is the first Moroccan
newspaper written in English language in Morocco. This
publication presents news and information about Morocco in
particular, with a section on Africa and the Arab World. It
is an independent publication with articles and features
dealing with all aspects of life in Morocco. Morocco Today
believes in the freedom of speech and the spread of true
information and permits to many Moroccans abroad to enjoy
between its content the atmosphere of their country and help
them to inter act through Morocco Forum 2000 with all other
Moroccans in the world.
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Our newspaper
does not abide to any political theory, our main goal is to
inform our readers and to promote our country, Morocco, in
the world. We are just free journalists who write what we
think can be of use to others, whether to visitors of
Morocco, investors, businessmen or scholars, researchers and
students. As you can see from the content of our newspaper,
Morocco Today, our action and philosophy emanate from our
love for our country. Our aspirations is to make our country
known to the whole world, as well as its beauty, history and
heritage.
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