Minister of Women's Affairs Opens a Course on "Managing and Planning Media Campaigns."

The Minister of Women's Affairs Dr. Haifa al-Agha visited Birzeit University on 25 May 2015, and met with Vice President for Advancement Dr. Ghassan Khatib, and Vice President for Community Outreach Dr. Samia Hlaileh, Nibal Thawabteh from the Media Development Center. The two sides discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the ministry and the university.

Minister Agha visited the Media Development Center and met with the staff, who spoke about media policies that are important to the ministry to ensure a balanced and equal rights of women and men. The minister valued collaboration with the center in the training project for the management of media campaigns that the ministry will implement during the period from 2015 until 2019 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 

Moreover, Minister Agha opened a four-day course on "Managing and Planning Media Campaigns," organized by the Centre in collaboration with the Ministry, and sponsored by UNESCO. The course will address writing a press release, preparing the media file for the event, networking with partner institutions, production of social service announcements for radio and television, TV and radio interviews and organizing press conferences.