There are many ways to get involved. Please take one step, no matter how small. Educate yourself. Write your representatives. Tell your friends, your church, your family. Whatever you can do, do it.

These links relate to the A World of Possibilities program “Caught in the Crossfire: Media Coverage in the Conflict-Ridden Middle East”.

Michael Weisskopf, Senior Correspondent, Time and Author, Blood Brothers, Washington, DC
Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Hayat, Washington, DC
David Marash, Senior Anchor, Al Jazeera English, Washington, DC
Amira Hass, Journalist, Ha’aretz, Jerusalem, Israel
Vivian Salama, Journalist, New York, New York

Check out Michael Weisskopf’s new book, Blood Brothers. It is a powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed’s amputee wing.

Dar Al-Hayat's English website is a primary source of information for all English-speaking readers seeking an alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the Middle East and the Arab world. You can check out the original Arab language website too.

Al Jazeera English is the world’s first global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Dave Marash, a lifelong broadcast newsman in the United States, became the Washington-based anchor for the network.

Amira Hass, a reporter for the Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz, is the only Israeli journalist living in the Palestinian Territories.

Vivian Salama has written extensively about bloggers in the Middle East.