Emirates News Agency

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Emirates News Agency
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Agency overview
Formed November 1976 (established)
18 June 1977 (began operations)
Jurisdiction Government of the United Arab Emirates
Headquarters Abu Dhabi
Agency executives
  • Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi, Director-General
  • Abdulla Abdulkareem, Head of Media Coverage Department
Website WAM

Emirates News Agency ( Arabic : ????? ????? ???????? , romanized :  Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat ), also known as WAM , is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates . [1] [2]

History and profile [ edit ]

The WAM was established in November 1976. [3] [4] It started an Arabic service on 18 June 1977, and an English service in December 1978. [3]

It is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and is part of National Media Council . [5]

In addition to its national offices, it has international offices in Cairo , Beirut , Washington , Sanaa , Brussels and Islamabad . [5] It is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council news agencies, the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA), [6] the International Islamic News Agency , the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool [5] and of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). [7]

The agency has cooperation and news exchange agreements with various news agencies, including the Sudan News Agency , Bernama (Malaysia), Xinhua (China), the Kuwait News Agency , Petra (Jordan), the Indonesian News Agency, and the Saba News Agency (Yemen). [8] Since 2012, the agency has also been in cooperation with Anadolu Agency (Turkey). [9] WAM launched a Hebrew language service in April 2021. [10]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "United Arab Emirates profile" . BBC . 27 August 2013 . Retrieved 5 February 2014 .
  2. ^ "UAE Media Sustainability Index" (PDF) . IREX. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2014 . Retrieved 5 September 2014 .
  3. ^ a b "About Us" . WAM . Retrieved 5 February 2014 .
  4. ^ Khalid Al Jaber; Barrie Gunter (2013). "Evolving News Systems in the Gulf Countries" . In Barrie Gunter; Roger Dickinson (eds.). News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries . New York; London: Bloomsberry. p. 34. ISBN   978-1-4411-0239-3 .
  5. ^ a b c Ibrahim Al Abed; Peter Hellyer; Paula Vine (2004). The United Arab Emirates Yearbook 2005 . London: Trident Press Ltd. p.  275 . ISBN   978-1-900724-89-0 .
  6. ^ Federation of Arab News Agencies KUNA . Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  7. ^ K. M. Shrivastava (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet . Elgin, IL: New Dawn Press. p. 269. ISBN   978-1-932705-67-6 .
  8. ^ Emirates News Agency (WAM) (Wakalat Anbaa al-Emarat) in Dubai Directory Data Dubai . Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  9. ^ International Cooperation Archived 25 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Anadolu Agency . Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  10. ^ "UAE launches official Hebrew-language news service" . The Times of Israel . 7 April 2021 . Retrieved 9 April 2021 .

External links [ edit ]

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