His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is to inaugurate and attend the Kuwaity flag raising ceremony in Bayan Palace on Wednesday morning January 26, 2011, at the presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, militery leaders, officers, policemen and national guards. The ceremony began with the national anthem and then His Highness the Amir raised the flag.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
1000 KD by Feb 24th.
The grants marked the occasion of the 50th independence anniversary, 20th liberation anniversary and 5th anniversary of Sheikh Sabah's assumption of office.
What will you spend your 1000KD on?
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Welcome to Press World
Greetings
I would like to dedicate my first message to Maria Alqobtia newspaper press team who decided to join journalism at early age, I wish we could cooperate together to execute a very special, attractive blog, It would be the first step towards the real world of journalism.
This year we may confront lots of hard work, training and achievement, who knows? We may continue this path together or with others maybe.
I'm glad to meet you and wish we could set a meeting each month or whenever we get the chance, hopefully we could communicate further through the blog of Maria Alqobtia Newspaper where you can express press and your thoughts.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the press team for all the facilities provided to achieve success for this project.
Saadiah Mufareh
A poet , critic, a writer and art editor in AL Qabas news paper - Kuwait
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
High School Journalism Education Program
Hawally educational zone
Maria Alqobtia highschool for girls
Introduction:
Journalism is a very vital career that each reporter or journalism should pay attention to it and take good care of it because it reflects the community issues, problems, worries and other matters.
State Of Kuwait was selected as the second Arab and Gulf country after Oman by the Academic Cooperation Center (AED) in the United States to execute a school press project aimed at developing the skills of critical thinking and analysis, and finding different teaching skills for teachers and exchange ideas in the field of information technology, communication skills and the press, as well as the use of technology in education, and training students to be able to cooperate with local and international projects, in addition to develop research in the field of journalism and inspire students to be devoted to journalism in order to find a better job in the future.
About the project:
It's one of the global educational projects based on learning educational sources network (IEARN) and oversees the (Academic Cooperation Center AED), in the United States, it focuses on developing the skills of journalistic work by high school journalism school.
Project objectives:
· Developing skills of critical thinking and analysis.
· Find different teaching skills among teachers.
· Exchange ideas in the field of information technology, communication skills and the press.
· Using technology in education, and training students to be able to collaborate with local and international projects.
· Develop research in the field of journalism and implement journalism to be their future employment.
Group:
School Students grades (10-12) whether scientific or Arts.
Project idea:
The idea of this project is to create a generation of journalists who love to do their job in good manner and to be capable of dealing with the requirements of the project to acquire sufficient experience and skills that make it work in future press field.
The project Process:
· Identifying schools included in the project.
· Meet teachers, supervisors to identify the project, and review the work plan.
· Implementation of training workshops for teachers and students about journalism.
· Continue to work with schools and students to discuss the project plan.
· Assign students as delegates journalists in their schools, and create reporter IDs to identify them during their attendance for various occasions and events at the school.
· Guide students to prepare the press releases and electronic project that contain their work.
· Visits other schools in each area in order to exchange experiences.
· Find training opportunities for students in news organizations in the State of Kuwait to link them with the environment of journalism.
The steps to implement the project:
The professional press project began through the training workshop for school press program organized by the Centre For Academic Cooperation in the United States and by (Northwestern University) In the State of Kuwait during the month of October, it involved 10 educators from various government and private schools as well as the presence of a group of media professionals and journalists of information, and we had the privilege to attend the Omani delegation headed by Prof. Issa Bin Khalfan Deputy Director of IT section at the Ministry of education in Oman and the journalist Amal Aljohoreya press consultant at the Times newspaper, and also the presence of school teachers and a student from Oman to share their experience with us.
This experience is the first of its kind in the Middle East within the global program of educational resources network (iEARN) and the main goal as we mentioned earlier is to develop the skills of critical thinking and analysis skills of communication and journalism as well as the use of technology in education.
Project members gained during the training workshop the basics of high school journalism education program and how to be an efficient reporter and also how to create a blog on the website.
The visit of the delegation of Oman and the US delegation at Maria Alqobtia High School:
On the 4th of November 2010 School Principal Muna Haider and school teachers received both the Omani and the US delegation. They have visited our school departments and attended a workshop, some classes and labs. 
The visit ended with a souvenir presented by our school principal Muna Haidar to our guests. It was such a lovely and interesting visit.
Execute the project at school:
The Committee has been established it consists of future journalists; the objectives were clarified and they have a global idea of the main task during this year.
Our students start gathering information, executed some interviews in Arabic, English and French language indoor, wrote some articles in both language Arabic and English.
On Wednesday 28th of December, journalist Saadiah Mufareh and journalist Amal Alrandy visited our humble school and we set a meeting with our principal and future students to discuss the press matters and how to plan and execute this project.
It was an effective and useful visit both for students and teachers, we presented a file and a CD that contains all of the achievement that our young journalists achieve, but we expect more excellent work next semester for a reason that this semester students were very busy with exams and lack of time but they did a great job for now and we hope for the best next year.
High School Education Program Plan
December 2010
1- Create a journalist team work to run the project, here are the team members:
Team member |
1- Nour Alsobaiy |
2- Fatema alzahra Ali |
3- Zahra Monther |
4- Ashwaq Saoud |
5- Shahad Haidar |
6- Raghad AlSallal |
7- Shaikha Altememy |
8- Noura AlSallal |
9- Shouq Emad |
10- Aliaa Lary |
11- Deema Jamal |
12- Shoug Abdulmajeed |
2- Inform participants about the main goals of the current project.
3- Publish a CD that contains the basics of journalism career that was held at Crown plaza Hotel/Kuwait by iearn and Northwestern University team.
4- Thursday 23rd. of December 2010, conduct a meeting with the participants at school library for a reason to gather their main ideas and thoughts towards the project.
Journalist | Subject | Teachers | School Principal |
Saadiah Mufareh | French Language | Hanan Alaraj | Mrs. Mouna Haidar |
Head of the cultural section at Alqabas Kuwaiti news paper | Arabic Language | Nashwa Qasem | Project Supervisor |
Story ideas
1- Politics:
· Sedition
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2- Social life:
· Impact of divorce on students
· Violence
· How to deal with others?
· Behavior control
· Polygamy and its implications
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3- Psychology:
· Meeting with psychologists
· How to achieve happiness?
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4- Arts:
· Art galleries
· Artists
· Photography
· Hobbies
· Handicraft
· Fashion
5- Technology:
· Misuse of computers
· Internet
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6- Interview with several personalities:
· School principal Mrs. Muna Haidar
· School teachers
· Doctors
· Hawally Educational zone and ministry of education managers and employees
· Writers and Authors
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7- Sport:
· Kuwait's soccer team achievement through the years and their great victory
at the championship Gulf Cup 20.
· Kuwaiti athletes and their achievement
at the championship Gulf Cup 20.
· Kuwaiti athletes and their achievement
8- School and education problems:
· Exams
· School attendance
· School subjects
· Homework
9- Languages:
· Story
· Vocabulary
· Songs
· Sayings
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10- School updates/ news:
· Seminars
· Work shop
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