In 2007 (2th September), the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium will focus on launching a dialogue between leading members of the Middle Eastern media and counterparts from Western and Eastern Europe to explore how they affect public perceptions and social harmony amongst their audiences and readerships and interpret their roles and responsibilities vis-à-vis society, politics and the reporting of international affairs.

Working sessions will allow for a joint assessment of key world events as well as an exchange of views regarding working methods, standards and ethics. An important aspect of the discussions will also be the opportunity to compare how European, Arab, Iranian, Israeli and Turkish media and interpret each others’ societies and values.
The conference programme will be structured around the focal themes of self-censorship and the impact of evolving transnational media on international relations as well as domestic affairs (minority and immigrant integration in particular in the case of Europe and socio-political developments in the Middle Eastern case).