[FoME] MICT's Election Cafe Tripolis

[Klaas Glenewinkel]

Election Cafe Tripoli 2012

News, information and trends – the only independent media centre in 
Libya, where Journalists
will find updates on current events from every part of the country.

Date: July 6 through July 9 2012 in Hotel Bab al Bahr (Tripoli) and on 
www.correspondents.org
and www.libyaaljadeedah.org.

The Election Café is an independent information centre for the elections 
for a new National Public Conference, in Libya, on July 7, 2012.
The Conference members will then choose an interim government and draft 
a new constitution.

On the occasion of these historic elections in Libya, the editorial team 
from the Tripoli-based newspaper, Libya Jadidah, and their colleagues 
from the German NGO, Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT), will 
run the Correspondents’ Election Café, an independent media centre 
catering for both local and international journalists.

For four days, Hotel Bab al Bahr, situated right next to the Tripoli 
tower in central Tripoli, will become the site of an exchange of 
information, ideas and analysis about Libya’s first free elections since 
1952.

Editor-in-chief Mahmoud Misrati and publishers Faisahl Swehli and Osama 
Swed will oversee a team of independent correspondents from throughout 
Libya. The information they provide will be available for the use of 
both Libyan and international media.

The Election Café can be seen as a useful addition to the Libyan High 
National Election Commission’s own media centre and, with its nationwide 
network of correspondents, the Election Café will contribute to free and 
independent reporting on the elections.

All reports and information will be available free of charge, in both 
English and Arabic, on the websites: www.correspondents.org and 
www.libyaaljadeedah.org.
 From 10am until midnight, members of the Election Cafe team will be 
available at Café Saraya. The staff of Libya Jadidah will manage the 
Arabic-speaking correspondents and the MICT team, led by Mirco 
Keilberth, will manage English-speaking correspondents.

Every two hours, a newsletter will be printed in both languages and 
distributed in Tripoli, Misrata and Benghazi. This is to ensure that, if 
Internet facilities in Libya are compromised in any way during the 
elections, information will still flow.

The Election Café is also working together with Libyan NGO `s which 
monitor the voting, the EU election obsvervation team, headed by 
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, as well as with Libya’s own High National 
Election Commission.

Contacts, Location and Times
When: Opening times: daily, from July 5 to July 9, from 10am until 
midnight.

Where: The election café is located in Hotel Bab al Bahr, next to 
Tripolis Tower and close to the Corinthia Hotel, Tripoli.

Editor-in-chief: Mahmoud Al Misrati, arabic (091-4098601, 092-464 2960)

Publishers: Osama Swed, Arabic + English (091-8466718) , Faisahl Swehli, 
Arabic + English (091-2100610)

Organisation in Café Saraya: Ali Arajshi, Arabic + English 
(092-6070848), Muhib Natah, Arabic+English (092-6738674)

MICT representative und correspondents-reporter Mirco Keilberth, 
keilberth at mict-international.org (092-8939316, +49-1717482072)
MICT Berlin: Klaas Glenewinkel, Klaas at mict-international.org (+49-0151 
50423455)

A list of potential correspondents working for the Election Cafe can be 
found on the aforementioned websites. All members of the Election Café 
team are available for interviews, advice, networking or research. 
Should there be any difficulties reaching the team in Tripoli, then the 
team at MICT in Berlin (www.mict-international.org) will be glad to help.

The Election Cafe Tripolis is a part of correspondents.org, a project 
funded by the German Foreign Office.

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media in cooperation &  transition

Klaas Glenewinkel, Managing Director

klaas at mict-international.org
mobile ++49 151 504 234 55

->  mict gGmbH, brunnenstrasse 9 / 10119 berlin / germany
phone ++49 30 484 9302 16 / fax ++49 30 690 88 390

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