First Panel: The Changing Regional Order // Zamaneh Media 10th year Anniversary
Channel: Zamaneh Media
Date: 02/12/2016

On 21 Oct 2016, Zamaneh Media commemorated ten years of reporting, publishing, documentary film making and civil society capacity building in a daylong conference and festival titled “Iran: the Road Ahead”.
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The Changing Regional Order. The Middle East is a region in turmoil. ISIS and the wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya are amongst the most recent displays of the perpetual violence and instability in the region. While it can be argued that the nuclear deal with Iran is a result of this instability, the deal in turn has an impact on the regional order as well. Case in point recent Saudi-Iranian tensions. This panel explores Iranian perceptions of different regional conflicts and the role Iran plays in them. The ambitious aim is to find roads away from violence and towards cooperation between regional powers.
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- Joris Van Duijne: Project Manager at Zamaneh media
- Mina Noor : Senior Policy Officer at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands 
- Hamed Hashemi : independent researcher and writer
- Paul Aarts : senior lecturer  of  University of Amsterdam
- Eddy J. Moors : Head of  CALM of Alterra Wageningen UR. 
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A Persian language media organization providing independent journalism, citizen reporting, blogging, e-learning, debate and knowledge to an audience in Iran and to Persian speaking community around the world

Broadcasts 24/7 via internet

Starts conversations about a wide range of issues that are considered public taboos in present-day Iran

Focus on reports, analyses, commentaries, blogs, debates and films about social, economic, cultural and political topics, press and internet freedom, human rights and democracy

A public media that gives a voice to the unheard: ethnic and sexual minorities, young Iranians, experts, writers, bloggers and independent academic thinkers

Hosts Zamaneh Tribune, a secure online platform where Iranian citizen reporters and human rights activists can upload, share and discuss multimedia reports on human rights and democracy and enter into debate with each other

Has provided close to 3000 Iranians with online education in Persian on independent journalism, multimedia reporting and digital security

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, it tries to build bridges between Iran and the Iranian diaspora

Informs a large audience in other Persian speaking areas of the world, such as Afghanistan and Central Asia