{"id":5927,"date":"2018-04-15T05:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2018-04-15T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T05:03:53","slug":"arab-thought-foundation-concludes-its-fikr16-conference-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/arab-thought-foundation-concludes-its-fikr16-conference-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Thought Foundation Concludes Its FIKR16 Conference In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Thought Foundation has concluded its annual conference FIKR16 titled \u201cStabilization Challenges amidst Regional Turmoil\u201d held in Dubai, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. The three-day conference was concluded with a session titled \u201cTowards a <em>New Arab Citizen\u201d, attended <\/em>by: His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al Faisal, President of the Arab Thought Foundation; Sheikh Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League; and Dr. Ali El Din HilalDusuqi, Egypt\u2019s former Youth Minister and professor of political science at Cairo University, and moderated by Professor Henri Al Awit, Director General of the Arab Thought Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Second, only to the role of the family, Sheikh Al Issa spoke about the importance of education when considering the influential aspects of mass media\u2014a multifaceted medium that leads public opinion in avenues that affect even cultures and customs.\u201cIn this deeply integrated system,\u201d he said, \u201cchange must come from within.\u201d As such, Sheikh Al Issa discussed the need to formulate a national project that seeks to identify and support public interests when formulating cultural systems. \u201cThis will usher forth a more prosperous future through developing clear, transparent, and strategic plans built upon the criteria that demand that we keep pace with progression\u2014while also considering and learning from any failure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In order to implement these changes, Sheikh Al Issa noted three requirements: First, and foremost, the objective must be fair and impartial to any personal or private interests. Second, and without exception, the plans in all integrity must be carried out with full transparency. Third, each plan must be equipped with sound vision, goals, and timelines for completion\u2014all of which should be available to the public to monitor as they desire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5928\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5929\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/G-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/G-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/G-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/G-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/G.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Thought Foundation has concluded its annual conference FIKR16 titled \u201cStabilization Challenges amidst Regional Turmoil\u201d held in Dubai, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. The three-day conference was concluded with a session titled \u201cTowards a New Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}