When I learned about the partnership between Al-Ittihad and Al-Bayan newspapers, on the occasion of the “Fiftieth Day of the Union”, I was overwhelmed with a very special joy, as if I was in a battle and finally won! In fact, this project, which I knew about as well as all the readers of the union and the statement, exceeded everything I had hoped for during my journalistic work over the past years. I have been constantly looking at some practices within the Emirati newspapers with some annoyance, and I was wondering between myself and myself, aren’t they all Emirati newspapers, and any achievement of any of them is an achievement added to the Emirati journalistic and media career? However, some individual practices indicated otherwise!
On one occasion, an Emirati newspaper received an award for excellence in a field, and at that time I was responsible for the website of another local newspaper. That’s a competing newspaper and that’s unprofessional. On one occasion, I chose an archive photo that was very suitable for a topic about the Emirati media, but they also scolded me for the photo, as it publishes other Emirati newspapers besides Al Ittihad. And many other situations that I have always found do not represent our union that I know and understand. Therefore, when I received the award of “Tarim Omran”, founder of the Emirati newspaper Al-Khaleej newspaper, for the best journalistic column, I paused and wondered, how a newspaper honors a journalist from another competing newspaper, where is the professionalism that they told me is being hacked!
Therefore, the partnership between “Al Ittihad” and “Al Bayan” newspapers and cooperation in celebrating the Union Day of the UAE was a real indication of the integration of national efforts to support the Emirati identity. Emirates in the next fifty.
Joint Emirati initiatives are the best response that national institutions can provide in the face of sterile individual practices that may impede the country’s efforts towards the future, which is the essence on which the idea of our state is based.
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